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55KRC Wednesday Show - Smitherman, Ken Kober, Jack Atherton, AFP, CCVS, Gary Benoit, Judge Napolitano · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Five o five at the five k r C the
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  Speaker 1: talk station. Happy Wednesday, Sesay.
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  Speaker 2: Some will.
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  Speaker 3: Vacation, no ideals.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for summing it up for the world, Tally and
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  Speaker 1: Joe Chucker for the SoundBite. Brian Thomas right here, glad
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  Speaker 1: to be hope you're having a wonderful morning. Happy Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: to you listener. Lunch Wednesday. Just get that out of
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  Speaker 1: the way. Mad Tree Brewery, Summit Park location that's blue ash.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing everybody. May even see my friend
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  Speaker 1: from cover sincey John Roman, who I talked to yesterday
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  Speaker 1: said he might show up. Looking forward to see him.
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  Speaker 1: Curbage Mike, if you're out there, are we playing a
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  Speaker 1: game today? Hope? So my submarine or friend Curbbage Mike.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe closed the day out or close the lunch
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  Speaker 1: out with the game of Cribage and start off twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, maybe with a win. I'm not optimistic anyhow.
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  Speaker 1: What a wonderful show Joe Streckers got lined up today.
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  Speaker 1: It is interesting because we had two two discussions with
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  Speaker 1: the Daniel Davis Deep dive. Of course, with the invasion
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  Speaker 1: event as well and the capture of Maduro that gave
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  Speaker 1: rise to the Monday segment with the retired lieutenant colonel
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  Speaker 1: given his analysis on that, and then we did it
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  Speaker 1: again yesterday further details on that and lots of complications.
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  Speaker 1: It appears as though we made some Donald Trump announce
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be getting fifty million barrels of
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  Speaker 1: oil from Venezuela. Some details on that coming up. So
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  Speaker 1: that's there on the fifty five carse Morning Show page
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  Speaker 1: fifty five carcea dot com for the podcast for those discussions.
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  Speaker 1: So two in there is I mentioned that double segments
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  Speaker 1: with the Daniel Davis Deep Dive. Today we get a
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  Speaker 1: volume two of the Smither Vent. Christopher Smitheman returns to
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  Speaker 1: the programs six five to one hour from now to
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  Speaker 1: talk about aftab's address. He got sworn in and then
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  Speaker 1: immediately said, we need to increase taxes. Okay, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to the details on not in a moment. Two. Ken Cobra,
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  Speaker 1: a former FAP president, Ken Kober, what are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: do about crime? Can we finally put up the West
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  Speaker 1: end cameras? Is it possible? Been promised for such a
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  Speaker 1: long time? One hundred and fifty thousand dollars allocated last
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  Speaker 1: summer after promises of two years of Hey, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put cameras up to the West End, finally allocated. Some
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  Speaker 1: money hasn't been spent yet. Silence is really deafening on
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  Speaker 1: what the status is on that. How difficult is it
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  Speaker 1: to find out where the cameras are, if they've been installed,
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  Speaker 1: and what the status is? Does it sound like a
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  Speaker 1: high ask? Does it hold on for that? So Ken's
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that and more help from the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio. I know aftab pro Bowl had struggled with
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  Speaker 1: the idea of accepting some assistance from the governor with
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  Speaker 1: regard to stopping crime or helping to fight crime in
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  Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. We'll take two days worth of
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  Speaker 1: state patrol assistance, but we only want a little tiny
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  Speaker 1: bit of it. Okay, we'll make it four days. And
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  Speaker 1: then at the end of the year it looked as
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  Speaker 1: though that agreement was just going away and we weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to be getting any more systems from the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio. It spy to the fact that we still
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  Speaker 1: have a serious crime problem in downtown. Ask have to
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  Speaker 1: have parvall. He focused on it yesterday and he got
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  Speaker 1: sworn in. Hmmm, I guess Christopher will chime in on
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  Speaker 1: that coming up in an hour, as well as Kenkober
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  Speaker 1: A big picture with Jack Avinent look at that with
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  Speaker 1: a parenthetical after two segments. Today we're gonna be talking
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  Speaker 1: with Jack Ovian about Venezuela and topic number two, how
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  Speaker 1: Democrats see people. Here's my guess, useful idiots just guessing
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time before we get to Jack aved at
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  Speaker 1: seven oh five, followed by Americans for Prosperity, Donovan and
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  Speaker 1: Neo has got some more endorsement for twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: including one here in the southwest corner of the state
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio. Talk about in political engagements for this year
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  Speaker 1: legislative primaries. In May, we got the US Senate and
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  Speaker 1: governor on the ballot in November. AFTEB or rather A V.
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  Speaker 1: Vike Ramaswamy has got a running made, he announced. I
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  Speaker 1: believe the announcement was yesterday. Ohio Senate President Rob McCauley
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  Speaker 1: has been tapped as mister Ramaswamy's running mate. So how
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about that? First reported yesterday evening is it?
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswami's team announced that if elected, he would be serving
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  Speaker 1: as lieutenant governor. He's an attorney for Napoleon Ohio long
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  Speaker 1: been the expected choice for Ramaswamy. So this I guess
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  Speaker 1: for the political insiders, and I will not include myself
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  Speaker 1: among those. I was not aware McCauley had the lead
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  Speaker 1: in terms of Ramaswamy's choice. But there's the answer to it,
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  Speaker 1: Senate President. He's forty one and ready to go, So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a winning ticket. I have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of respect for v Big Ramaswami, and if Vivik says
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  Speaker 1: he's the guy, I think he's the guy. Maybe he'll
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  Speaker 1: join the morning show. Joe Odds on that working on it,
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  Speaker 1: I knew you would be just check her ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the game on that. So Donovan seven thirty on that,
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  Speaker 1: we have Zach Kynes as well as his thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the running Meete clamor County Veteran Services returned at seven
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  Speaker 1: forty question, why don't some veterans see healthair through the VA,
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  Speaker 1: provided you're eligible? What reason would you have not to
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  Speaker 1: take it up? I was like to point out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with some exceptions. I know that there are some like
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  Speaker 1: I mean, making the gazillion dollars after you get out
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  Speaker 1: of the military, maybe you don't qualify for the free
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  Speaker 1: healthcare that you get from the VA, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: really good services there, and you did get that as
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  Speaker 1: part of your compensation. There's no reason you shouldn't take
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  Speaker 1: them up on it. Sign up for your VA benefits.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be amazed at what they have to offer for you.
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  Speaker 1: My American veteran friends, Gary Minoy book Vanguard of the
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  Speaker 1: Americanist Cause, says look out for Agenda twenty thirty. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: we've got another one of those United Nations Agenda twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirty apparently no longer an abstract global framework increasingly shaping
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  Speaker 1: policy decisions and cities across the United States, and that
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  Speaker 1: he has examples on this interesting never heard of Para Gold, Arkansas,
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  Speaker 1: have you no? Well, apparently this UN Agenda twenty thirty
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  Speaker 1: is impacting the lives of my friends in Paragold, Arkansas,
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  Speaker 1: where it's happening in other cities as well, long term
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  Speaker 1: redevelopment plan that mirrors the United Nations Sustainable development. This
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  Speaker 1: whole idea of the fifteen minute city. You will live
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  Speaker 1: in packed housing. You will not be able to move
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  Speaker 1: back and forth between communities without approval. That's actually a
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  Speaker 1: thing in the United Kingdom. I found it very difficult
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  Speaker 1: to believe. Critics of this whole program point to examples
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  Speaker 1: like Oxford, England, where it reportedly residents must obtain permits
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  Speaker 1: to cross major roads between zones, and are warning about
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  Speaker 1: similar systems being introduced here in the United States, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently a paragold Arkansas one of them. That's why we're
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  Speaker 1: talking to Gary about his book. At eighth five remark,
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  Speaker 1: does that sound like connected communities? Joe here in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati, A little bit done it? Eh, one
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  Speaker 1: size fits all for all communities. You can't self determine
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  Speaker 1: your rights and your individual area of town. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you will have it shoved down your throat in the
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  Speaker 1: name of what ask yourself why? Of course it's uh Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: So after Gary joins the program NADO five, judge entered
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  Speaker 1: Apolitano shocking no one. Yeah, he is upset about the
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  Speaker 1: capture of Nicholas Maduro and I knew he was gonna
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about that, So had a brief email
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  Speaker 1: exchange with the judge yesterday on that. I'm shocked, shocked
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  Speaker 1: that you want to talk about that. So Addie Howe
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  Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five, eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eight two three taco with pound five fifty on
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  Speaker 1: AT and T phones and jumping ahead of Christopher Smithman
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  Speaker 1: and Dan Hills or Kenkober. Who's going to be on
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  Speaker 1: a I'm sorry, Can Cobert? Yeah, who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: on a tear about the proposal to increase income tax Why?
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  Speaker 1: To fight crime? That's what's been widely reported in the
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  Speaker 1: headlines locally. But what else is it beyond fighting crime?
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  Speaker 1: You know there's something else there. So while being sworn
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  Speaker 1: in or after being sworn in, purval announce the proposal
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  Speaker 1: to increase the income taxes at least in the city.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be able to vote on this comes a question
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  Speaker 1: of when, but it will be placed on the ballot
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  Speaker 1: to the extent they approve increasing your income tax. He said,
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  Speaker 1: within the next sixty days, there'll be a proposal to
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  Speaker 1: increase taxes on residents earnings for the purposes of funding
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  Speaker 1: public safety measures. And maybe a link to our eighth
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  Speaker 1: five guests affordable housing. Now Joe and I Joe brought
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  Speaker 1: this article to my attention yesterday. We had a brief
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  Speaker 1: comedic exchange back and forth text message wise, but where's
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  Speaker 1: the railroad money? I heard a lot about it. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: Christopher can answer that question. Do we need additional income
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  Speaker 1: tax from the residents of the city. First off, let
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  Speaker 1: me just point out something that I think speaks for
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  Speaker 1: itself and is obvious and doesn't really need to be stated.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a great marketing thing for bringing people to
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  Speaker 1: want to move into the city of Cincinnati, People who
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  Speaker 1: actually earn a living that will be paying an income tax. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: move here, We're gonna take more of your salary. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's working great for California New York. Good point, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: I love that loss or that that proposal in California,
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  Speaker 1: the five percent billionaire's tax. They're gonna have to liquidate
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  Speaker 1: their assets in order to pay it. Oh, it's only
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a one time thing. You know, you gona
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna flee the entire state. Although they say it's retroactive,
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  Speaker 1: anybody's still living in the state of California in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six is gonna be subjected to this. So if
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  Speaker 1: you move out, they're still gonna take it from you. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what the moving truck activity is right now
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  Speaker 1: in New York. Out the the out migration in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you can't get a U haul anyway. Parl
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  Speaker 1: Ball City believes the tax player will play a role
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  Speaker 1: in quote disrupting poverty, which is the root cause of
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  Speaker 1: youth violence. Poverty is the root cause of youth violence. Well,
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  Speaker 1: according to Brother Dre Andre Ewing was on the program
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  Speaker 1: last week. He was a splictins a police officer coming
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  Speaker 1: up in thirty years. He does a lot of work
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  Speaker 1: in the prison system, interacting with people who are well
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  Speaker 1: familiar with well criminal activities. They got convicted and were
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  Speaker 1: locked up as a consequence of their activities. Andrea Ewing,
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  Speaker 1: what would you say is the biggest problem that leads
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  Speaker 1: people to crime? Broken homes, fatherless homes, Mom's out working
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  Speaker 1: all day. You got a bunch of latch key kids
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  Speaker 1: coming in their influenced by their friends, maybe some uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know people they're doing drugs, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: There's your root cause of poverty right there. It's been
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  Speaker 1: said over and over and over and over and over again. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Aftab said, juvenile gun violence is a crisis and it
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  Speaker 1: must be met with a bold response. Bad thing, juvenile
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  Speaker 1: gun crisis word word word bold. We need a bold response.
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  Speaker 1: What specifically is it raising the taxes on the residents
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  Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati. I'm sure if you're a
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  Speaker 1: working person in the city and you're paying taxes, you're
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  Speaker 1: probably not involved in youth gun violence. You got to
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  Speaker 1: deal with it, though, don't you. Quote new revenue will
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  Speaker 1: allow us to here we go, fund and further prioritize
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  Speaker 1: public safety investments and support our police and fire in
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  Speaker 1: a historic way. Well, I suppose historic in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the purbole administration of the currents ands. A city council
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  Speaker 1: actually saying the words out loud, you support the police
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  Speaker 1: and are doing something to help support them, is in
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  Speaker 1: and of itself a historic change and shift in philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: it went on to say. But it will also empower
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  Speaker 1: us to invest in affordable housing, catalyze neighborhoods that have
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  Speaker 1: not shared in our growth, and support programs that will
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  Speaker 1: help build our norty owned businesses. Support programs. You know
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  Speaker 1: what that sounds to me like? That sounds to me
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  Speaker 1: like it's an opportunity for another non governmental organization labeling
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  Speaker 1: itself as a nonprofit, to put its hands in the
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  Speaker 1: collective cookie jar of the taxpayer funds and get paid.
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  Speaker 1: We've been down this road many times. Before. Haven't we
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  Speaker 1: catalyzed neighborhoods that have not shared in our growth? Anybody
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  Speaker 1: going to break that down for me? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of his bold initiatives. I suppose he said,
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  Speaker 1: my expectation will be an annual commitment and all of
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  Speaker 1: the resources available to us from the state will be
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  Speaker 1: deployed in the city under the chiefs command, Meaning he's
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  Speaker 1: going to accept I guess the help from the State
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio offered by the current governor of the State
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio accord to reporting other parts of this public
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  Speaker 1: safety plan permanently implementing walking patrols in the city. I
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  Speaker 1: hope that means cops, I know. I was just thinking, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: ask Iris if her son's gonna get some T shirts
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  Speaker 1: printed up and some hoodie's printed up and labeled walking
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  Speaker 1: patrol and just you know, suit people up and have
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  Speaker 1: him walking around anyway, bit forty dollars an hour for
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  Speaker 1: that job. Why not? Well, Joe's pulling figures out of
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  Speaker 1: thin air. Though it sounds probably like you're pretty accurate,
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  Speaker 1: Joe as a prediction, building onto the city's bike patrols,
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  Speaker 1: investing in technology like license played readers, and the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: Police Department's drawn program investing in programs that have proven
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  Speaker 1: to mitigate crime. That's in quotes. I thought we didn't
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  Speaker 1: do any follow up on the programs. When the money
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  Speaker 1: goes out to the NGOs who are supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: things like mitigate crime, we never do follow up to
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  Speaker 1: find out if they actually mitigate crime. Another topic brought
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  Speaker 1: up when I had a conversation with Andrea Youwing about
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  Speaker 1: that on the show. All right, well, I like to
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  Speaker 1: see the data proving that whatever program's going to get
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  Speaker 1: the money has actually resulted in some crime mitigation and
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  Speaker 1: finally continuing curfew for juveniles in certain parts of over
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  Speaker 1: the Rhine in downtown, but not all parts. And then
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  Speaker 1: what about those cameras. The hope was that the safety
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  Speaker 1: plan that was unveiled last year, the five point four
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  Speaker 1: million safety Plan, which included one hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars for money installing ca lights in the area over
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  Speaker 1: in the West End, which have been promised them for
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  Speaker 1: two and a half years and have not yet shown up.
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  Speaker 1: Where is that money? The mayor said, The Sincini Police
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  Speaker 1: Department does have cameras in the West End. Love that
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  Speaker 1: are you ready but couldn't say how many or how
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  Speaker 1: many still need to be installed. Do you think that'd
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  Speaker 1: be a critical piece of information for the mayor to
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  Speaker 1: have at his disposal since we've all been asking about
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  Speaker 1: them since the most recent killing of an eleven year
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  Speaker 1: old over there? Does anybody have that information? And that's
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  Speaker 1: for the railroad money. I'll just say this out loud.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to sort of joke about this, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: if there is railroad money coming in the investment of
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  Speaker 1: the billion dollars or whatever, isn't crime part of the
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  Speaker 1: existing infrastructure. I think you can make an argument five
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  Speaker 1: twenty one right now. Feel free to give me a
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  Speaker 1: call if you have anything to say. I love to
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  Speaker 1: hear from you. Got some time. And then before we
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  Speaker 1: get to Christopher with the return to Christopher Smith, a
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  Speaker 1: vent for a Wednesday's Smith event coming up at seven
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  Speaker 1: o five, continuing the theme along those lines, be.
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  Speaker 4: Right back fifty five KRC flashed back to the countdowns
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  Speaker 4: you grew up with Tony Night fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: For the low with scattered showers and scattered showers will
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  Speaker 1: continue on Friday, I guess, and to end into Saturday anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Friday's high sixty degrees right now, it's forty four degrees.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got KERSEB talk station today, the anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: that God Rest his soul, those people who are not
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Rush fans, the anniversary of Neil Parrot's death. He and
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  Speaker 1: Danny Carey right up there at numbers one and two.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: You can assign the number one and two spot yourself. Great,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: great drummer, What an amazing drummer. Anyway, apparently fifty million
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  Speaker 1: barrels of oil, that's what we're gonna get out of
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  Speaker 1: that as well. Trump announced yesterday that the Venezuelan interim
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  Speaker 1: authorities who are going to be the regime loyalist I
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  Speaker 1: guess the CIA did some numbers crunching and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to need to keep some of Nicholas Missuro's
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  Speaker 1: regime folks in there, specifically Vice President Delsi Rodriguez, because
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  Speaker 1: you're going to need some form of stability, and if
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  Speaker 1: you just put in people who are Maduro oppositionists in place,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have someupt some disruption in the country. And
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  Speaker 1: no kidding on that. I suppose so state of flux there,
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  Speaker 1: and she seems to be a fence sitter in so
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  Speaker 1: far as whether or not she's going to cooperate with
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  Speaker 1: the United States. But as you know, as of yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: with this announcement, between thirty million and fifty million barrels
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  Speaker 1: of sanction oil going to be brought here to the
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  Speaker 1: United States for processing at our refineries and then resold
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  Speaker 1: for the benefit of the Venezuelan people and of course
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  Speaker 1: the United States. This oil will be sold at its
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  Speaker 1: market price, and that money will be controlled by me,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, as President of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that is used about to fit the people
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  Speaker 1: of Venezuela and the United States. Of course, Venezuela's Ministry
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  Speaker 1: of Information didn't respond to requests for comment. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: still trying to get the power on down there, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Dropped in US oil price benchmarks, of course,
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  Speaker 1: one percent drop in the price of oil as a
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  Speaker 1: consequence of this action, more oil in the market. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the laws of supplying demand suggests that the price of
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  Speaker 1: oil will certainly drop. Presidents expected to meet with some
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  Speaker 1: of the oil executive Chevron, Connaco, Phillips, and Exonmobile on
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  Speaker 1: Friday to see if he can finagle them into reinvesting
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  Speaker 1: into Venezuela's crumbling refining infrastructure. Of course, that money's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to be invested if you want to get
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  Speaker 1: the oil reflowing again, especially at the levels it was
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  Speaker 1: flowing before. Well, all the disruption was notably Hugo shave
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  Speaker 1: Is getting elected, nationalizing the oil industry, kicking out the
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  Speaker 1: private industry that was actually running it efficiently and taking
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  Speaker 1: it over himself, only to find the whole thing spiraling
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  Speaker 1: out of control. Then you had the sanctions on top
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  Speaker 1: of that. Then of course the blockade, so Venezuela is
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: still sitting on a whole lot of oil. Question is
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  Speaker 1: whether we're actually going to get it. We'll find out,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: yes to the victor goes the spoils. I don't know.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Fred's on the phone. We're going to take your call
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  Speaker 1: right out of the gate. Fred, I've got to take
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  Speaker 1: a break for a run over longer as I did
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  Speaker 1: in the last segment, five twenty seven.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, fifty five KRCD talk station, fifty five krc
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  Speaker 5: How do.
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  Speaker 1: You feel about your current asset portfolio? It's five thirty
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KRCD talk station. Yeah, Joe, there are many
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  Speaker 1: times on the fifty five carsee Moriey show or I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to be able to explain my coming back from
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: break laughter. I don't think the SEC would really truly
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: appreciate my delving into the details of our conversation off air,
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  Speaker 1: So we're just gonna let that go and take Fred's call. Fred,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning. Happy Wednesday to.
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  Speaker 6: You, Hey, good morning, Happy winness to you.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Thanks man, Good to hear from you again. Happy to
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  Speaker 1: do here.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, Yeah, first I had to say our part.
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  Speaker 6: I wish everything go well for mister Thomas Abment. I
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  Speaker 6: had to say that first. I've been listening to you
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  Speaker 6: and I pray for you every single day mine.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: You know I've never met you personally, but I consider
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  Speaker 6: you a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, Fred, I truly appreciate that. I consider
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the listeners to this audience my friends without question. You know,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: we can disagree, not necessarily your I, but maybe we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: have in the past, maybe had some disagreements. But the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: idea that you call in want to engage, you listen
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: to the program, You care enough about your community to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: tune in. It means the world to me, and that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you know you're concerned about my health that that is
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: just that that's one of life's little miracles for me there, Fred,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it really really is, so thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: I just trust definitely, definitely. And one thing I want
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: to talk about is as far as the violence and
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  Speaker 6: uh uh, the individual that seems to be committed the violence,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: and it's you know, I grew up in in pretty
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: much in the inner city, and and and and I
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: understand what you're saying that that it seems to be
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: single parent homes, and I guess my outlook on it
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: is a little different than yours and what statistics say,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and it's it's more or less a generational
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  Speaker 6: thing in some homes that that it cursed so speak,
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  Speaker 6: has to be broken. And the only way to do
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: that is is more or less to eradicate it. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: the only way to do that is to you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: do it by more or less strength, so to speak,
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: because same individuals do the same thing every single day.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: I see them every single all day. And when you
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: don't do nothing about it and allow it to infest
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: like like like bugs, then of course it's just going
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: to grow. And since uh more or less, I'm in
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: one of the hills Avondale, downtown bond Hill, the same
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: people are doing the same thing every single day, and
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: nobody never say anything. And and and those communities are
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: once with the most violent center. And you know, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: my whole outlook is once again, I can stand there
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  Speaker 6: and Washington police uh past them and never do anything.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: And there's alls on the book that we do not
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  Speaker 6: use can be used against these individuals, will stop a
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  Speaker 6: whole lot of these crimes. And I just think that
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  Speaker 6: if we just just just look at what's what's there.
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  Speaker 1: To be used.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like I said, once again, you know, I'm in
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: a neighborhood that's a doll of violence in it in
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: and you have I think, what's I think it's alcohol stop.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: I can't think what. I can't think of his name
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: of us now when they stop you, uh for two blocks,
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: alcohol blocks or something like that, I can't think of
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: the name of it. Anyway, you dad put it in
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: a newspaper before they do it. I can't think of
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  Speaker 6: the name of it. But anyway, why can't we do
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  Speaker 6: that in certain neighborhoods, not just for alcohol check checkpoints.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I kind of knew what you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: were going. Streams out checks for joe.
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  Speaker 6: Us, Yes, check, But you've got certain streets that's in
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: the neighborhood that's causing more crime. And if they checked,
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: there's more murders and and and killings on certain streets.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that where the aren't that where is that where
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the resources are supposed to go? Then that's what I thought, Yeah, well,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I mean that, but active policing where the crime is
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's it's target law enforcement.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Where's the biggest concentration of crime. Isn't that the logical
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: place to put more police officers?
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  Speaker 6: But and then I keep saying the same thing over
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: and over again that I see the police but not
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: coming down my street or are near my house. And
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: I just think that it could be much more can
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: be done. I understand that their recruits are coming in
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: and they're going to have more police out of the streets.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: But my whole thing is this, when there is no
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: crime in one place, why not put more police and
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: other where there's crime?
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  Speaker 1: Fred, you're making take the.
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  Speaker 6: Police behind the desk. From behind the desk, you don't
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: have to do anythin just going look you.
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  Speaker 7: Make it, make it.
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  Speaker 1: Not make it too much sense? Fred, you're make it
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: too much sense. I mean, I am not a member
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of law enforcement. I didn't study criminal justice. I mean
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: my connection to law enforce is basically because my sister
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: was a cop for more than twenty five years. But
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: if you know where like the West End they have
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: crime all the time, I mean, you can see the statistics.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Cameras might go a long way to at least solving
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the crime. But you got to put the damn cameras
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: in to at least have some sort of impact. We've
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: been waiting for years for that little tiny thing to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: happen in a neighborhood that has been overrun with crime.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: You live in this particular neighborhoods, you see the crime,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you're aware of it. You know statistically that that's where
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of the crime is happening over and over again.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Apparently it's not happening at Hyde Park, right, So get
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the cops over to bond Hill or the West End
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: or wherever. Ah fred makes too much damn sense, Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's why they don't do it.
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  Speaker 6: But once again, man, I pray for you every single day.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: My shifts changed. Now definitely would be able to call
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: it a little bit more and like I say, pray
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  Speaker 6: for you and your family, man, and you take care
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: of yourself, and we'll be talking.
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  Speaker 1: Fred. You're good man. I appreciate it all day long.
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  Speaker 1: And I love hearing from you because you speak from
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: an experience that I do not share. You know the neighborhood,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: you know what you see, you know where the problems are.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: This is the kind of conversation we need to have
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: from people who've experienced it and rational people like Fred
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: to appreciate that, you know what, the presence of law
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: enforcement is not a bad thing. Iris Roli five thirty six.
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• 25:57
  Speaker 1: real quick on the comment on Fred's comment, and I
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: appreciate what he's saying. I do you agree with Fred
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that more police in any given area will deter crime?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Because if you're standing there and you are planning on
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: committing a crime, if it's a cop there, I think
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we could all agree it's less likely to happen. The problem,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I believe, and we really got to get into the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: root of this is what is the impetus for committing
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the crime? And how do you eradicate someone's willingness and
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: desire to engage in criminal activity? Where does that come from?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You know, and my family raised okay, you were I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: was raised. You know, they tried to teach me morals.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Of course, they took me to church, and you learn
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: some morals from church. The threat of incarceration and a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: record was always a looming thing in the back of
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: my mind. Everybody's got to maybe I'll just do this, eh,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you know, it's I can get away with it.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: You know what happens. You ed up with a record,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and the deterrence was you don't end up with a record.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: You know, my parents are patting in your head. You know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you end up engaging your criminal activity, You're not gonna
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: be able to get a job. You will be unemployable.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: No one wants to hire a criminal. That's the repercussions.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: But that's a bad thing, because oh my god, you're
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: gonna you know, at somewhere there has to be accountability.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: There has to be something that prevents someone from engaging
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in the activity, even if they want to do it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: It's the fear of incarceration, the fear of punishment, that's
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the key leg of the criminal justice system. And then
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you go out after you're convicted and serve your jail
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: time or to face whatever criminal justice you're gonna face
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: because you committed a crime, you're the poster child for
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: everybody else to not do it. Look what happened to Jim.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He committed crime and now he's serving time. I don't
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: want to be Jim. This is just all logic and reason,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: but someone's gotta be there to pound that into a
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: young person's head. Tom, Welcome to the Morning Show. Good
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to hear from you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Uh yeah, I was
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: one of the many thousands of people that got affected
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: by the whole airspace over Puerto Rico and Caribbean thing.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: I know, nobody's gonna feel sorry for me for being
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: in the Caribbean, but uh yeah, that was a that
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: was a bit of a nightmare. Definitely not a pr
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: stunt by the President. That was bad. I know, I know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: bad timing on that one, but hey, what are you
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: gonna do. You're trying to surprise people. So, yeah, your
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: your topic you're talking about with Fred, Well, I agree
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: with Fred. Hard to argue with that. However, there's too
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: many people out there that are arguing with that, that
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: are feeling like, oh, you're putting more cops in this neighborhood,
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Well that's racist. Wait a second, do you want us
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: to deal with crime or do you want us to
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: worry about people's feelings? Because you can't do both.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: What does it have to do with race? This is
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the default argument for the left. You're racist. We're not racist.
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: We're going after.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: Criminals exactly, exactly. And and if more more of the
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: criminals happened to be one race or the other, whatever,
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: that's hey whatever, Nope, the cops shit care, you know.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: And yeah, well it's.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Like the Somali community. We're not being racist for going
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: after fraud and crime it happens to be within the
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Somali community. Apparently word got round that you can easily
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: build the American taxpayer for shoot loads of money. Caught myself,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: didn't I, but let's do it. Okay. It's not because
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: they're of color, it's not because they are Somali. It's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: because they live in a collective area where the word's
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: gotten around that it's easy to do that. And guess what,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them engaged in it. I don't
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: care if they're white, red, green, yellow, whatever color skin
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: they happen to be. They're members of a close knit
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: community who engage in massive fraud. Go after them. Has
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with racism.
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we we, and unfortunately we have too many people
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: who obtain positions of power and this is on both
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: sides of the aisle that figure out a way to
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: do things to make it easier for people to get
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: away with crimes, whether it's you're violent crime or whether
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: it's white collar crimes or whatever. And somebody at some
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: point has to put their foot down and say no,
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: I don't really care who you are. You broke the law.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: You have to pay the consequences. And there's not enough
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: of that going on. And it's pretty obvious that there's
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: one party that's doing that a lot more than others,
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: and that's the Democrat Party. There they are jumping through
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: hoops to make it easier for people to get away
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: with crimes and open the floodgates to get all this money.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: So this is what's all about Brian, all this money
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: and a tab just wants to make that pot bigger.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: We gotta we gotta have more money. No, we don't
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: have to have more money, a tab. We have to
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: have more accountability. And I know that words scares the
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: hell out of Democrats, but that's what we need. Don't
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: vote Democrat. Have a great day, Pad to have you
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: back time. I'm glad you made it back safely from
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: your trip. Sorry it was interrupted by military actions in Venezuela.
• 30:51
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  Speaker 8: We's gore to the home. See what Jay's got this morning.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: J Happy New Year. Good to hear from you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: Hey, Happy new Year, and Brian, Hey, I wanted to
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: tell the listeners and you and everybody that over the
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: past several years, all the talk and discussion and frustration
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: with Ohio medicaid fraud, I think we're finally making traction.
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: I'm hearing even at the national level that when people
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: say Minnesota, the very next state that comes in is Ohio.
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: So keep pushing. Now's the time call your politician, call
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: Dave Jos's office, call auditor Keith Faber, and ask them
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: what are they doing about it. I did have the
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: opportunity and was able to get through into the Glenn
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: Beck program and also the Rush Limbaugh program over the
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: Christmas break to get the word out at the national level.
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: If you think Minnesota is bad, just stand by because
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: I think that forty three point three percent improper payment
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: rate at Ohio had last time we had some data
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: would put us closer to not the nine billion a
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: Minnesota seeing, but I think we're going to be close
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: to the seventeen billion. If you do the math on
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: a forty two to forty five billion dollar Medicaid line item,
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: forty three point three percent in proper payment.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Well, that multiple programs. This is just Medicaid, it's not Medicare,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: it's these family programs. It's literally every government program out there,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: apparently RTE with fraud, waste, and abuse. I mean I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: viewed all of this as low hanging fruit. Jay. I mean,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I'm in your camp on this, and we went with
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: modern technology and the abild to cross reference data and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: track information. We should be able to ferret this all
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: out in fairly short order, assuming they're willing to put
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the resources behind it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: I mean, well, speaking a resource, speaking a resource. I
• 32:48
  Speaker 10: also found out I did some digging on where is
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: the Joint Medicaid Oversight Committee that I Jennifer Gross was
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: a member on. Found out that that got shut down
• 32:58
  Speaker 10: defunded in September of twenty twenty five. After all those years,
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: the cost of the taxpayers, what went into the politician's
• 33:06
  Speaker 10: pocket was about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: year for those members all those years accomplished absolutely nothing,
• 33:13
  Speaker 10: and they quietly shut it down in September, which I'm
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: glad they did, because if you're not going to do anything,
• 33:19
  Speaker 10: then then stop paying people to get into a room
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: and talk about a whole lot of nothing. But it
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: begs the question of if we're worse than the country
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: and the republic, ten people from Ohio government couldn't get
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: together and figure it out, what do you replace it with?
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: If now, who's Joint Medicaid Overset Committee or just the
• 33:39
  Speaker 10: wind just get to run rampant just the way he
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: wants to and spend this money however he wants to,
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: because this falls at his feet. He's the governor and
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: the Department of Medicaid and Medicare roll up under him. Now,
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: Jennifer Gross did tell us that for every I think
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: it's for every dollar that the state of Ohio kicks
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: for reimbursement from the Fed, we get three dollars back,
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: which would explain everything.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: That's the corrupt part of the system is it's federal money. Ergo,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: there's no reason to keep track of fraud, waste abuse
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: because you end up getting more money back from the
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Feds in the state and the states sent out. It's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a great self fulfilling prophecy on that one.
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: So now's the time to push listeners.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: And don't you know, I'm.
• 34:23
  Speaker 11: I'm going to reverse what we used to say.
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: Brian, don't vote Rhino. I think that they're more dangerous
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: than Democrats. Honestly, Well, we got to defeat them first
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: and then don't vote democrat.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Ye.
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: Have a good day, Brian.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Good to hear from me. Jay again, Happy New Year,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: appreciate the calls. Yeah, I get a couple of stack
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: of stupid stories in here for we take a break.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And then here from Christopher smith a mom with volume
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: two this week of the smither Van. Yes, of course,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: dealing with f tab provols claim to need additional income
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: tax from the residents. Got a woman in South Carolina
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: now under arrests for causing a scene, Yeah, quite a scene.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Richland County Sheriff's Departments at thirty five year old Cardiesia
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Gilmour rested facing charges that including decent exposure, shoplifting, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: public disorderly conduct. According to the Sheriff's office, she was
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: caught trying to steal four packs of stakes at a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: public's Why are you doing that? I don't know. Maybe
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: because she not figured she won't be facing any charges
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: in the criminal justice system. Thought she was in California anyway,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know got she became irate after she was
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: confronted and proceeded too, of course, like everyone would urinate
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: on the floor of the store. When de wuty showed up,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: she ran away and her traffic in a nearby road
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: before eventually complying with authorities. The deputies stated that Gilmour
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: tried to run again after being taken to the patrol car,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: but was restrained. Sheriff's department said she also tried to
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: kick a deputy in the face, had no identification on her.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: They said they only found her carrying an empty bottle
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: of oxy codone that was prescribed to a different person.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Real Quick Care a theme. We got a New York
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: advertising executive who's been arrested for urinating on several victims
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: from a rooftop bar.
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: Do what the hell?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: As a consequence of this obscene behavior, he will be
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: performing community service and prohibited from using alcohol or mind
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: altering substances. As part of the deal he's struck with prosecutors.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Judge approved the pretrial intervention with Matthew Day. He's thirty,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: arrested in July for disorderly conduct at the Landing, which
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: advertises itself as an elevated hangout balcony bar. Please claim
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the Day entered the rooftop bar, pulled his junk out
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of his shorts, urinated from the balcony onto the sidewalk,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: where several passers by were struck with urine. Cops reported
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: shockingly that Day showed an indication of alcohol influence when
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: he was arrested for his activity. He accepted responsibility for
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the crime. It's got to be performing fifty hours of
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: community was undergoing of alcohol evaluation and counseling. Aparently part
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: of a pretty decent firm that does advertising, and I
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: imagine he's probably no longer with them anymore. Not good publicity,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you might will ron another consequence of criminal activity. If
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you are gainfully employed and you commit a stupid crime
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: like this or any other crime, you're probably gonna get fired.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Fifty six fifty five KR see the talks station, Christopher
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Smithman out of the gate after the break, kep sticker around.
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  Speaker 5: Today's tough headlines coming up at the top at six.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Or five fifty five cars de talk station, and I'll
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: probably mention it a lot this morning, because let's see
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  Speaker 1: folks at Mattree Birwdy they summit park location for listener
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: lunch and always enjoy the fellowship they're kicking off twenty
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: twenty six on the right foot. Hopefully that all these
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: swirling bad news and the craziness going months, notably the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: swearing in of FT provol and his claim that we
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: need to raise the income tax. At least he mentioned
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: public safety, but also I guess money for affordable housing.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to get it out of your system, Christopher,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I love being a therapy guide for you to to
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: help deal with your mental health challenges to deal with
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: all this news. Smither Event Volume two for this week
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman, Welcome back to this show, my friend.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much for having me on Bright
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: you know, for your listening audience. You know, the city
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: budget is no different than your household, right and every
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: day you've got to wake up and pay for the
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: operation of your home, their capital improvements like fixing your roof,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: putting in a new HVC unit, whatever it is.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Paying your duke energy bill, paying.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Your Duke energy bill exactly exactly that amazing radar.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: So pissed off about that one.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And you don't walk in around the dinner table and
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: look at your your spouse or your significant other and say, listen, man,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: you know we've got to make some tough choices here.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna go out and buy
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: a really nice car, and at the same time, I'm
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: gonna I'm not gonna cut Netflix or I'm not gonna
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: cut my spectrum bill, or you know, I'm not gonna
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: reduce something else. I'm not gonna take that big trip.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do all those things. The problem with city Hall,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: it's a spending issue. Let's start with the operation of
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: the streetcar, not the capitol building of it. This is
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: what we talked about, Brian Tarmin. The chickens are coming
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: home to roost, right, so I estimate it's five a
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: year just to operate the streetcar. This council wants to
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: take the second leg up to UC. Here's what's really happening.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: They don't care about police officers. There's there's nothing that
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: shows you that they care about law enforcement. This is
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: about generating more money because the COVID dollars that they've
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: been patting the budget with are now gone, and so
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: now they have to sit back and really balance the budget.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Instead of balancing the budget, they're going back to the
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: will and they're saying, let's raise the income tax on
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: the three hundred and fifty thousand or three hundred and
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: thirty thousand citizens that live in the city of since
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: that knowing that our property taxes are already going through
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: the roof. This is just an irresponsible mayor and council
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: that cannot balance a budget. They keep putting out these
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: lofty contracts like to an Irish ROLLI as an example,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: and you say, well, what is she doing. She's hiring
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: her son, what's happening with that money. See, this is
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: the kind of stuff where if you're in the city
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: and you're watching how they manage their budget, and then
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: you're watching the mayor's personal cars be repolled, you don't
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: trust that they know what they're doing, and the fact
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: is they don't, Meaning why don't they make the hard
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: decisions in front of them, Meaning show us that you're
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: willing to reduce your own spending prior to coming to
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: the taxpayer and saying, will you bail us out for
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: all the irresponsible decisions? But no, they'll come right back
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: and say, you know, we've got to do the mural,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the Black Lives Matter Mural. We're going to spend another
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: million on that. We're going to do a contract for IRIS.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: We're going to fire people irresponsibly and just keep putting
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: money out. We're not going to reduce any hours on
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: the street car. We're going to continue to operate it
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: at the same level, meaning at the same time we're
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: going to talk about building the second thing of the
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: street car and guess what, we're going to tax all
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: of you, even more money and tell you it's about cops. Well,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with cops, nothing to do
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: with it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Well, don't overlook the very large checks they're going to
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: be writing to the former fire chief and probably please
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: former Chief Fiji when they settle out their employment dispute
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: discrimination cases. That's millions of dollars right there. I suspect
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: that will.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Be absolutely What they're really trying to do, what this
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: mayor pure of all, is really doing is he's trying
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: to pit police officers against conservative voters. So what they're
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: setting us up to say is this is a narrative.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: If you vote against us raising the income tax, you're
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: voting against cops, as if he's for cops. Right, So,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: there are lots of bees that are funded in the
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: operating budget outside of police officers. But what he's trying
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to do is pit the profession against all of the
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: citizens of Cincinnati who say, we want to be safe
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: and you haven't been able to deliver safety to us.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: It's not about raising taxes to the public. This is
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: a council with the mayor that you voted for. Elections
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: have consequences, and so whether it's the eight million dollar
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: settlement for those who were downtown who are acting crazy
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: and we're arrested, and we're now paying them off on
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: that settlement. Whether it's an Irish rule, the contract, whether
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: it's the operation of the street car, you name it,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you. You and I could put a fine
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: too to this budget and cut things that they are
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: going to be uncomfortable with. But we can find ten
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: or fifteen million dollars a year in operating that we
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: shouldn't spend before we raise any taxes on the public.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: They'll never do it. This is about this is a
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: spending issue. This is about raising our taxes Brian Thomas,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: and they just don't ultimately care. The last thing I'll
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: say is remember this is a democratic council that says
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: they care about the poor. This is a democratic council
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: that says we care about affordable housing. How do they
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: think that everyday people can pay for increases in property taxes?
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: The widow or widower out there who's going to fix
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the income How do they think on a social Security
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: check that they're going to pay for these increases in
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: property and income tax and feeves that they keep slamming
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: us with, which makes Cincinnati one of the most expensive
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: places in our state to live.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Well, you got a lot of unpackage on that there,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman. I guess when you going back to your
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: comment about this as an effort to pit conservative voters
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: against Democrat voters, you presume, and I think it's fairly accurate.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Conservatives tend to be pro law enforcement, and we certainly
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: agree that there should be more law enforcement officers in
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati in order to improve the crime situation. That's
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a logical response to crime. But this is so much
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: more than that. So first off, let me just say,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: there don't appear to be a whole lot of conservative
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: voters in the city of Cincinnati as I stare at
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the chart in the aftermath of the last election, where
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: it's basically solid blue with the exception of Californian Riverside
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: and saleor Park. So I'm not sure there are that
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: many conservatives out there to even vote one way or
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: the other. But when you start saying further prioritize public
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: safety investments, support police and fire, also empower us to
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: invest in affordable housing, I don't know what these words mean,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: but he said them. A purvol catalyzed neighbor hoods that
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: have not shared in our growth and support programs that
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: will help build our minority owned businesses. All of that
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: is going to be accomplished with some percent increase in
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the income tax. If it was just law enforcement, if
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: they presented us a budgetary scenario, going back to your
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: budget comment, Look, we're in trouble. We need to hire
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: more police officers. In order to do that, we're gonna
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: have to pay them more because nobody wants to work
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: in the city of Cincinnati, where everyone thinks the police suck.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: It's only for police. No other programs are going to
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: benefit from the money. It's gonna bring in X millions
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: of dollars. We're going to use it all to hire
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: police and improve public safety, period, end of story. That
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: might sell as a proposition, but this is a have
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: to have provol so it's not about public safety. In fact,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: check out Todd Zinzer's post. He here's what he said
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: just nine hours ago. Apparently city Hall is wasting no
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: time to try to raise the earnings tax. The mayor
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: and council would like to keep spending more and more
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: tax payer money to quote disrupt poverty close quote until
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: they get it right, or the city, its businesses, and
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: its taxpayers go broke, trying I put my money on
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the ladder, todd says, to my point, disrupting poverty was
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: basically the same purpose the mayor cited for his twenty
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: twenty two tax increase, except then they raised property taxes
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: in the city, and there was no mention about public
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: city in the mayor's motion whatsoever. His motion posted Bluss.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: We can even read what he wrote back then. So
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: instead of increasing the earning tax, todd says, the city
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: should increase fraud prevention and detection. He says, there are
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: quite a few of us out here who would be
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: willing to help the city to do that, I e.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Todd Zinzer. And at the same time, it would help
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: the mayor keep his twenty twenty three promise of no
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: new taxes, which is another reference going back to what
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the mayor previously said, no new taxes. Remember George Bush
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: said that and he ended up losing an election over
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: raising taxes. Hey, I have to have provoll what about
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: your twenty twenty three promise.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Corey Bowman was on the ballot and we had an
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: opportunity to elect in the mayor and that was in November.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: We're talking about this in January. The mayor knew all
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: of this prior to the election. This is absolutely abating switch.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: And the other thing that I want to want to
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: highlight about this, and I agree with what Todd is saying,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: but if this mayor really wanted this to be about
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: public safety, and I hope the president of the FOP
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: is listening, are sitting on ninety nine who I know
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: will be on on Friday, I'll be listening at AAM.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Ben Coober is at the bottom of this hour, so
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: we're going to be hearing from him shortly.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: So I'll be listening to your entire show. What I'm
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: saying is why not then do a dedicated income taxes
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: is what you're leading to, or say just for cops,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: meaning if this is about cops, why not say, Okay,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: we're going to raise the income tax for this amount
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: of money, and it is just for police officers. It
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: cannot be used, it is restricted just for cops. That's
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: not what they're trying to do. And that's what you're
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: talking about, Brian Thomas, and to the public something they
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: can do. There are other cities that have done it
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: because it's not what they're trying to do. They're worried
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: about the operating budget and this is fungible, and they're
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: trying to operate the street car and do all these
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: other little special programs and pay all these people all
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: this money. They're not interested in cops. They're trying to
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: pit me and you are people like myself who support
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: law enforcement. When we come out and we say vote
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: no on this, or we decide to pick up a
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: petition and collect signatures.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, I like that. Let's hold on, Christopher, Let's elaborate
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: on a little bit. Let's pause and bring it right
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: back into this. I just want to ask you an
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: out loud question about where's the railroad money. One more
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: with Christopher Smith before we get to Ken Cober at
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the bottom of this hour. First plumb type plumbing. It's
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: always vactation, very happy Wednesday to you're going to be
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: an especially happy Friday. I was just talking with Joe
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Strecker about this and Christopher mentioned it out loud. I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: was going to bring it up this morning before we
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: get back to Christopher smithing and with volume two of
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: the Smith Event this week, Signal nine will be on
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the program. Eight a I'm on Friday. If you're not
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: familiar with Signal ninety nine, you need to be go
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: over to Facebook and just follow her. Former police officer
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Carolyn will be joining the program. Outspoken and well connected
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: she is in terms of the information that she shares
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: to her followers, it's just it's it's hilarious stuff and
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: quite often it's a little painful to see the reality
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: of what's going on in the city. Back to Christopher, Hey,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: where's the railroad money? Christopher? I thought we were going
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: to get a big wind fall from that billion dollar investment,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and what wouldn't that solve some of the financial problems?
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And why do we need a tax increase if we
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: got all this new revenue coming in.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Christopher, Well, those are capital dollars, but it's a big
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: pot and I agree with you if there's no transparency
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: around those dollars, how they're being invested, how much money
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: is coming in. And this was my big issue too,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: was the land, the three hundred miles all the way
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: to Tennessee that our forefathers had for us. There was
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: no other city I know of in the United States
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: of America, but definitely in the state of Ohio. Who
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: had three hundred miles of rail that we own, and
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: we were bringing in about thirty six million dollars and
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: it would have been forty six million before we clicked
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: our heels three times. It was a terrible transaction by
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: this mayor to sell our railroad. But here's going to
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: be the result of this, Brian Thomas. People are leaving Cincinnati.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Those who can get out are leaving. They're selling their
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: businesses that they don't want to pay the income tax,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: and they are taking their residence outside of the city
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: of Cincinnati. So the reality of it is there are
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: going to be more and more people. Now, how do
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: I know this? How do I say that with certainty?
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Because of the profession I'm a financial planner. I'm telling
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: you what my clients are telling you. They're saying, I'm
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: out of here. I cannot afford the property taxes, or
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: I don't want to pay the property taxes, or.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe the crime or maybe it's crime too.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: It's crime too. But they're saying, listen, I would be
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: willing to pay. I just did a I'm looking I'm
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: thinking about a cliny. I just did a financial review
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: of cart and the client said to me, I would
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: be willing to pay the taxes if I got the service.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: But the problem is the city is so dog gone dirty.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: When they miss my trash or they don't pick up
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: my trash, they won't come back and get it. I've
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: got potholes all around me, tearing up my nice car,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: my nice vehicle. Right. Or if I call the police,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I don't get the response I want. Not because it's
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: the police is because they will not invest in officers.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: If I just move out into the county, I'm gonna
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: get better services. I'm either gonna pay lower taxes, right,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna be safer. And so
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: what's happening is people are leaving those who can leave
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: relief this move that the Mayriorage making. Watch what I'm
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: telling you, population is gonna drop. It's not gonna go higher.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: People are gonna say I can't afford it, and I'm
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: just gonna move so somewhere else.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: People who are earnings, right, people who are earning a
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: living and paying income tax. You can't lose those people.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Wasn't that the point of gentrifying over the rine and
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: building all the urban hipster paradise places to live, so
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: they would bring in people who actually worked and paid
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: taxes in the city. Christopher, that's exactly that. That's the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: sweet spot that you need to make it a more
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: welcome environment for people who are paying into the system.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: It's a great point your client made. You know what,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting a return on my taxpayer investment. I mean,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: you'd be willing to pay taxes if it resulted in
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: something positive in your world. It's like going out and
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: buying something. You choose to purchase something because it's going
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: to benefit you in some way. You get value for
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the money. You're not getting value for your tax payer
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: dollars in the city.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Correct. And then they'll say to me, well, Christopher, I'm
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: already sending my kid. To say that, I'm already sending
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: my kid's deceit. And so my kid is not in
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati public school system, but sixty five percent of
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: my property are the public school system. Why am I
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: paying all these taxes? And then then if I then
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: those who are living in the county are frustrated because
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: they say, I work in the city and I'm paying
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: for earning tacks. I work for proper example, but I
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: can't vote for any of these people. I can't vote
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: any of them out. I have no control over it.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: So what you're seeing is businesses are saying and my
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: heart goes out to Taste of Belgium who's filing for bankruptcy.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know what their situation was, but all I
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: can tell you is the lack of foot traffic certainly
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: didn't help their situation. The crime levels in the downtown area,
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: on the banks and then over the Rhine didn't help them.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: And to your point, Brian Thomas, all of those people
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: that have invested not one hundred thousand millions of dollars
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: in their housing, they have reached in OTR. There are
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: beautiful spaces that people have retired, their children have moved.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: They said, I'm going to move into the OTR. I'm
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: going to create this really cool space. But guess what.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: The crime is out of control, and they're in estments
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: that they've made are at risk, and you're going to
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: see those people say what you're talking about, I'm getting
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: the heck out of downtown. I thought this was going
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: to be cool. The city sold me a bill of goods.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: They're raising my coxses, my property taxes, but they also
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: can't keep me safe. This increase, this increase, Brian Thomas
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: isn't going to make anybody safer. And there are people
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: out there, because my phone is already ringing, who are considering,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: why don't we just drop a petition on them, stop
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: them at the gates, at the barbarians at the gates,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: and tell them no more, no more, no more. But
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: what we don't want are cops pitting cops against the issue,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: and that's what the mayor is trying to do. This
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: is not about cops for him. This is about all
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: of that other stuff that you're talking about, and cops
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: are the lowest in his mind that on the total
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: poll of stars what he's interested to pay for.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: And in terms of the businesses you're referring to, and
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: I think it's implicit in your comments, but I want
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: to say it straightforward out loud. Those businesses rely not
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: just on residents that live within the city. They rely
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: on people who want to come into the city to
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: spend money, who want to come into the city and
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: go to Ruby's or some of the other restaurants that
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: are down there that are great. But you know what,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: who among us has not talked to a person who
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: said I am not going to the city anymore because
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid of the crime. I have heard that from
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: so many people. It's almost like the norm. Whether or
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: not it's an appropriate conclusion, because I like downtown and
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I think there's some great stuff down there that it
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: is definitely there that is attractive to me. But you
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: know what lingering in the back of my mind is
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, I saw the beat down
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: on film, the you know from last year. I've seen
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: the crime statistics. Eleven year old gets a randomly shot.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: That could be anybody. Doesn't have to be eleven year
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: old girl in a park. It could be literally anyone
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: who's the victim of random gunfire. Do you want to
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: be that person?
• 55:51
  Speaker 6: No?
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Are you going to be subjected to that in Oh,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Westchester or Anderson or Hyde Park. Probably not,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: but it may very well happen high crime areas of
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: the city where a lot of businesses have invested a
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: lot of money hoping people will come in and spend it.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: They're so frustrating Brian Thomas is, then how do they respond.
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: To those things?
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: Meaning, when the eleven year old girl has shot, how
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: do they respond to it. Right when the when the
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: when the citizens were beat up in the downtown, how
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: did they respond? They deserved it, they got what they
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: was coming to them. That is how city council and
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: this mayor responded to it. So the reality of it
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: is I feel bad for those businesses that are in
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: down town. I absolutely do. My heart goes out to this.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: But I'm also not going to get on this radio
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: station in lie and say that Cincinnati is safe until
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: it is safe, until the reality of it is of
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: many of these neighborhoods have voted for this, They voted
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: for this mayor, they voted for this council. Elections have consequences.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Christopher Smithvan, you have consequences too. That's why I love you.
• 56:52
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• 56:57
  Speaker 1: and you're more than welcome, and I thank you for
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: helping us. We're going to continue this conversation anwing, a
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: conversation about downtown Cincinnati and most notably the crime. Welcome
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show and a
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: happy new year to Ken Cover FOP. President's great to
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: have you back on the show. Sir, Hey, good morning, Brian,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Your reaction matter have to have
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Purvol's proposal to increase the property to increase the income
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: tax in order to deal with public safety, but a
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: lot of other things. He said, new revenue will allow
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: us to fund and further prioritize public safety investments and
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: support our police and fire in a historic way. Do
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: you really need money to come out loud and start
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: talking up and supporting the police verbally and in public
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: and encouraging the citizens of the city to work with
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: police as opposed to reject them and consider them all
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: to be an evil force. I mean that to me,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: right there would go a long way our elected officials
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: out loud showing support for you and the members of
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: law enforcement.
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: Now, you know, I think that there's this misnomer that
• 57:58
  Speaker 9: throwing money at a problem somehow equates to supporting public safety.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: And it just doesn't.
• 58:04
  Speaker 9: Money's not going to solve this no matter how much
• 58:06
  Speaker 9: money you throw at it, and raising taxes is just
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: not going to help anything. It's just I you know,
• 58:14
  Speaker 9: it's following what this Future's Commission said, which is a
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: bunch of CEOs from downtown that have a stake in
• 58:21
  Speaker 9: this play in the city that thinks that it's going
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: to be a good idea to raise taxes and instead
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: of looking at the budget and seeing, well, is there
• 58:29
  Speaker 9: places that we can cut stuff if we want to
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: fund things more, and instead the simple answers, well.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: We're just going to tax people more.
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: People are tired of being tax I was looking at
• 58:38
  Speaker 9: some social media stuff this morning online, and you can't
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: find one person that supports this.
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: It's nonsense.
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: I hope council members take heed of this and do
• 58:50
  Speaker 9: the right thing and decide to vote this down.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Well, one thing is for certain, if they do support
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: an increase in the income tax, it will be something
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: that the voters in the city will get to to
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: approve or reject as a concept. And I'm just wondering
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: how the voters are in the city of Cincinnati feel
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: about having their income tax raised. Ken.
• 59:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, I mean I'm not too hopeful about the
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: voters of the city, especially considering how this election just
• 59:16
  Speaker 9: worked out. But that goes for Hamilton County as well.
• 59:19
  Speaker 9: You know, when we're seeing that the law law and
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: order judges that are not being re elected. So I
• 59:23
  Speaker 9: don't have a whole lot of hope for what's going
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: on in this county right now.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's going to make things worse. Christopher Smithman
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: said a lot of his financial planning clients moving out
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati for all these reasons, crime,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: property taxes, income tax and not getting return on the
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: investment for the taxpayers that are a taxpayer or for
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: the dollars that they spend in taxes. So it's going
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: to only going to exacerbate. If your prediction is true.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: It follows Christopher's and that is a bad, bad thing
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: on a going forward basis for basically city and Hamilton County. Pause,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: bring Ken back. Talk about some of the things Provall suggested,
• 59:55
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• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: of the hour news we're gonna hear from Jack out
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: ofton with a big picture. I always enjoy that. Currently
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: talking with that FOP president Kenkob represent the sin St
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Police Department Union and a Hello, I just got a
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: text from a guy I know. You know story career
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: in law enforcement. Retired from the Sin Sint Police Department
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: after multiple years, John Newsom went on to be a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Warren County Sheriff. He said, tell Ken hello and then
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: ask him if there are any performance measures regarding the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Ohio State Patrol working in the city. Mayor, I have
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: to have pur vault. Yesterday, when talking about this income
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: tax increase, he said also that he intends to continue
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: the city's current public safety initiatives, like extending the partnership
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: with the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Now, when this whole
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: crime thing hit the fan last summer and fall, and
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: they know through this five point four million allocation, part
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: of the concern from people was, wait a second, the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: governor has offered you thirty days, every single day, every
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: month of the year, assistance across a broad array of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: law enforcement. But the mayor only chose to take him
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: up on two days a week or two days what
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: was it a month or a week and then four
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: days he didn't take the entire package. Do we know
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: did Ohio State Highway Patrol's presence, as limited as it was,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: have any impact on crime? Did it help at all?
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: And if they extend this partnership, do we have these
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: metrics that can show yes, this is worth doing, Although
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: it does sound like it's worth doing. From my perspective
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: just on its face, Yeah, I.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: Mean it's certainly worth doing. I know they did have
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 9: a lot of success, especially using their helicopter from people
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 9: that were fleeing if we didn't have a drone operator
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 9: available to be able to have the helicopter there that
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 9: were able to assist in making arrest.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: So it's certainly worth it.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 9: And the interesting part is I talked to Andy Wilson,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: who's the director of the High Department of Public Safety,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 9: which oversees all of these entities for the state. I
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 9: talked to him yesterday because you know, as we heard
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 9: the mayor talk about how that they were going to
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 9: extend this relationship.
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  Speaker 12: Of course I pick up then.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: And I call him and I go, what does this
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 9: look like? And he did say in fact that yes,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 9: he goes, I've talked to Chief Henny. He goes, he's
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 9: extremely excited about expanding this. He goes, I'm not so
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 9: sure yet exactly what that means. And of course, you know,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 9: I was a bit apprehensive because we certainly saw uh
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 9: in September, you know, when they offered all these things,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 9: and I was in these meetings, and you know, the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: mayor immediately pushed back and gave, you know, seven different
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: reasons why they couldn't do this, and then of course
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 9: in the twenty third hour when they were getting ready
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 9: to start, they mixed it. And then they went back
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 9: a week later and said, Okay, well we'll do some things.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 9: But to your point, I'm going to get a hold
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 9: of the director today and see if they have any
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 9: metrics that they can provide of because they keep stats
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 9: for everything. It would be nice to know, Okay, what
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 9: is our even though it's technically not costing the city anything,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 9: it's costing taxpayers. You have to have these troopers down here,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: But what is what's the return on investment? I think
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 9: that's important for people to know.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I agree with that, and I guess we are still
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: down a lot of police officers, at least in terms
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: of the contingent in the city of Cincinnati. One of
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: the efforts was we need to hire more police. We
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: need to do lateral hires because it takes a while
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: to get a recruit class through and get them up
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: and running. We wouldn't need the Ohigo State Highway Patrol
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: if we had enough police officers to start with. I mean,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: isn't that the core of the problem, right? Now insufficient
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: police officer power.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah, without a doubt.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 9: I mean they just they authorized a class of thirty laterals.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 9: We have a class of seven that's starting.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Seven three weeks to my next question, exactly what I
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: was going to ask you, Let's say we had this
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: fund that this new income tax or this whatever pile
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: of money would be exclusively allocated for the purpose of
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: hiring new police officers and boosting the ranks of the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: CINCINNTI Police Department. Can we even do that in this
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: anti police environment created by all these left wing nut
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: jobs which made policing, which used to be a laudable
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: and a lofty and well respected profession, which has reduced
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: it now to something that no one wants to do.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: So is there any way to overcome the challenge of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: even hiring people?
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 9: Well, the answer right now is I don't think there's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 9: a way to overcome it. I mean, we saw what
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 9: happened back in July and August and September after the
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 9: fourth and Elm brawl that occurred, you know, where you
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 9: had investigators that were being ordered by city officials to
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 9: sign criminal charges when the prosecutor's officers they weren't warranted
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 9: who wants to work in those conditions. And then now
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 9: on top of it, now they're talking about raising taxes.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 9: Who wants to come into work in the city of
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 9: Cincinnati when you're going to pay more taxes. I mean,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 9: these are all things that, whether they believe it or not,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 9: are having an impact on being able to hire police officers.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 9: And we've seen this. Now we do have a metric.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 9: Let's talk about metrics. They authorized thirty lateral recruits and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 9: we got seven. What's that tell you? That tells you
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 9: everything you need to know.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: It's scary right there. Yeah, I mean for the people
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: who hate the police, you know, mission accomplished congratulation on
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: undermining what used to be a respected profession and bringing
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: about a lot of crime in our cities for want
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: of police officers. That's a Paul and Ken, it really is.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought that up because that's been
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: my sort of looming question in the back of my mind.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: You know, if we're I mean, is there enough money
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: in terms of salary that we could offer someone to
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: become a police officer? If you, I mean you had
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: a figure in mind that could overcome this challenge, we
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: got thirty open spots we're hiring. Is there a dollar
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: figure associated with that would say, Okay, we're going to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: not kind of seven, we're gonna have a full contingent
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: of thirty. In fact, we're gonna have to turn away
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: fifty people because we don't have enough space or money
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: for them. What's the figure? If money is the object.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 9: I'm sure there is a figure, but I can tell
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 9: you apparently the City of Cincinnati it's not there, because
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 9: when you're only getting seven out of thirty, I would
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 9: say that the money's not there at least yet. And
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 9: you know, we'll see what happens. They talking to the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 9: mayor talked about yesterday about all these historic investments and
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 9: public safety over twenty twenty six or we're going to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 9: see what that is because we're going to be negotiating
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 9: a contract at the end of the year, so we're
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 9: going to see just how his historic the investments are.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Joe's comment, that's going to be fun. Ken Kober, can
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: you we'll pause, we'll bring it back because I'm going
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: to ask you about this camera situation over in the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: West End, because apparently after parlwall Is waiting to hear
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: from the since ain't the talk Station six fifty one
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: pitch about krcity Talk Station FP president Ken Cober on
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: the program talking about crime in the downtown Cincinnati and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: the problems associated with on the heels of the matter.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: After have Parawall getting sworn in within ten seconds of
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: his statement starking about increasing the income tax in the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: city for public safety, along with affordable housing and a
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: whole litany of other things. How about one hundred and
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars that they allocated last September for cameras
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: over in the West End, cameras that had been promised
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: to the friends over in the West End. Since let's
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: see here, Dominic Davis got shot and killed in twenty
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: twenty three, that's when they're first talking about installing cameras.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Then we have the death of a kreener we read
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: eleven year old killed in the park very close to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: where Dominic was gotten down, and still no cameras. One
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars is allocated, and yet we
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: don't even know if the cameras are up, and neither
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: does the mayor. The mayor said yesterday that since a
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: police department does have cameras in the West End, but
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: doesn't know how many or how many still need to
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: be installed. Quote. CPD is doing the work to identify
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: those numbers, and as soon as we he and the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: mouse in his pocket have them, we will make them
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: available to you. I think that's a fun fact he
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: probably should have had when he was sworn in ken Kober.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: What is with the cameras? How does it take so long?
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: And I know they don't necessarily prevent crime, but they
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: go a long way to solving crime and provide some
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: people a measure of comfort. What's going on with this?
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: How much control do you have over where those cameras
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: are and how many there are?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 9: Well, here's the interesting part about this. So the city
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 9: has the police Department has access between city owned cameras,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: other entities that own cameras that they give the city
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 9: access to that maintains them. The police department has access
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 9: to roughly eight hundred cameras throughout the entire city. They
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 9: also have two people that are responsible for installing and
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 9: maintaining these cameras, two people for eight hundred cameras. The
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  Speaker 9: other interesting part of this is in order for them
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  Speaker 9: to be able to go do maintenance on these cameras.
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  Speaker 9: To install cameras, they have to have this is a
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  Speaker 9: big surprise, a bucket truck to be able to go
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  Speaker 9: do these things. The police department does not have a
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  Speaker 9: bucket truck and they can only get access to a
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  Speaker 9: bucket truck if another city department says, yeah, there's one.
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  Speaker 1: Available for you to use.
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  Speaker 9: So this sounds a whole lot like what we saw
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  Speaker 9: that occurred over the summer where they decided, hey, we're
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  Speaker 9: gonna do all these walking patrols, and when they were
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  Speaker 9: told by Chief Fiji, we don't have the personnel to
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  Speaker 9: fill this, their response was figure it out. Oh now,
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  Speaker 9: so this is the same thing that happened. You have
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  Speaker 9: politicians that go, this sounds really good. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 9: in front of a camera. We're gonna say we'renna allocate
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  Speaker 9: on hund fifty thousand dollars that we're going to put
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  Speaker 9: cameras up, and they're going to do this. Well, if
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  Speaker 9: you don't have the means to be able to do
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  Speaker 9: these things, how do you expect us to get done
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  Speaker 9: the problem that you have?
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  Speaker 1: And it takes so damn It seems like such a
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  Speaker 1: simple thing to accomplish Kent really does. I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: and his brother's got a camera on their house anymore,
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  Speaker 1: ring doorbell. I know that's probably not an adequate types
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  Speaker 1: camera solution, but this is not some sort of multi
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  Speaker 1: billion dollar modern technology that you got to acquire. This
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: has been existing out there in the world for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, and it seems to be a simple manner
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  Speaker 1: to put them up and give the voters and the
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  Speaker 1: residents what they have been promised for two and a
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  Speaker 1: half years.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, without a doubt. So you decide we're going to
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  Speaker 9: invest one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cameras, but
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  Speaker 9: we don't have the equipment for them to install them.
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  Speaker 9: We don't have the people to go out and maintain
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  Speaker 9: install these cameras. But yet they expect us to get done.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, that's that's silliness to think that this is
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  Speaker 9: going to happen. We know that a politician would never
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  Speaker 9: just say something to try to appease the community.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, we know that they.
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  Speaker 9: Would never just throw money at a problem. But unfortunately,
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  Speaker 9: in this case, that's exactly what it seems like has happened.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Among the safety plan that he had mentioned permanently
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  Speaker 1: implementing walking patrols in the city that requires the manpower
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  Speaker 1: that you said does not exist. Building onto the city's
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  Speaker 1: bike patrols. That seems to me to present the exact
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: same problem. Investing in technology like license plate readers, so
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: the Sincini Police Department's drone and the Sinsi Police Martment's
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: drone program that requires folks to monitor and read the
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: data that's coming in, assuming they even put those up.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: I understand that's like the flock camera kind of deal.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: And then finally investing in programs that had proven to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: mitigate crime. I don't even know what that means, but
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: it sounds like the vast majority of the proposals from
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: the mayor require a lot more police officers. And again,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: going back to your point, if you can't get an
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  Speaker 1: open wide offer for thirty spots filled, you only get
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: seven applicants, you can't accomplish the proposed goals.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, this is the problem. All these things
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  Speaker 9: sound fantastic. Let's have walking patrols. Where are you gonna
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 9: put the walking patrols? Where are you gonna put them?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: Are you gonna put them in high crime areas? And
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 9: tell these officers are gonna pair them up and tell
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 9: them to go out and do proactive work to arrest criminals.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 9: If you're gonna say that, you're gonna do it and
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 9: you're gonna support them, I think it's a great idea.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 9: But if it's gonna be like what we saw this
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 9: past summer where they said, oh, well, we're gonna put
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 9: people on Vine and Main Street between Central Parkway and
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 9: Liberty where no data suggests that there's been an increase
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 9: in crime. Everything's been in north Over the Rhine. But
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: all we're gonna do is walk around because we're going
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 9: to protect all the three CDC businesses. That doesn't make
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 9: much good sense, but that's exactly what we saw. They
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 9: actually went as far as to say, well, we gotta
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 9: have walking patrols in Washington Park. Well, there hasn't been
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: an increase in crime in Washington Park, so why are
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 9: we going to do this. While we're gonna do it
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 9: because the marises we're gonna do it doesn't make any sense.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 9: This is the problem that I've had with the mayor
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 9: all along is stay out of policing. You're not a
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 9: police officer, you're not a law enforcement professional. Never have
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 9: been let the police department run the police department, and
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 9: maybe you'll see things change. But until that happens, we're
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 9: going to see a lot of in twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 9: and we solw twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Five, and I'll add along and double down on my
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  Speaker 1: earlier comment. It doesn't cost a dime for the mayor
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  Speaker 1: and the members of the Cincinna City Council to come
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: out and go around the various communities and make regular
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: public service announcements that we should be supporting the Cincinnati
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: Police and stop demonizing them, work with them, make phone calls,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: hand in tips, help control the crime in your neighborhood
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: by working cooperative with the cincinn Police Department. That's a
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: simple statement. I just made it up off the top
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  Speaker 1: of my head, and I think that might go a
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: long way without additional tax revenue.
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  Speaker 9: Can without a doubt, adding tax revenue is not going
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 9: to help anything. Like I said, you can try to
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 9: throw money out a problem. Money's not going to solve
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 9: a problem. It's just not going to.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Now when you can't get people to be police officers.
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  Speaker 1: FOP President Cancobra on behalf of my entire listening audience
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: and my family, to you and every member of law enforcement.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: God bless each and every one of you. I hope
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: this year is a better for all of us, and
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best. Seven oh six Bitty
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• 1:13:09
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  Speaker 1: with guests and today I always look forward to for
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  Speaker 1: a variety of reasons, not the least of which is
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: right now the big picture with Jack advit in the
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: brilliance of Jack adad and coming through every Wednesday. At
• 1:13:21
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  Speaker 1: listeners all the time. Jack, they love your commentary. Welcome back,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: my friend, in a very happy new year to you
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: and your beautiful bride, Ainsley.
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  Speaker 5: Shin Jackson, that's what you're call me. Thank you, Happy
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: now and happy new year everybody. We're planning to talk
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: about the completely opposite way Democrats and Republicans see people,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: But first, Brian, can I offer a few thoughts about Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Love to hear him. Jack.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: There is a legitimate dispute, even among Trump supporters, about
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: a president's powers as commander in chief under Article two
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: of the Constitution yet. But remember, as I know you do,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: Brian Congress under Article one has not declared war since
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: Pearl Harbor eighty four years ago. Harry Truman, a Democrat,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: relied on the UN, not Congress to fight the so
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: called police action in Korea that killed fifty four thousand
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 5: Americans over three years. Lyndon Johnson, another Democrat, was knee
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: deep in Vietnam by the time Congress passed not a
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: declaration of war but relatively the Gulf of tom Kin Resolution.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 5: The Vietnam War killed at least fifty eight thousand Americans,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 5: closer to Venezuela in every sense. Republican George H. W.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: Bush the Elder invaded Panama with twenty four thousand US
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 5: troops on the ground, extracted and prosecuted Panama's Manuel Noriega,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 5: and installed an opposition leader, all without seeking Congressional authorzation
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: and with the courts upholding his actions. Noriega had been
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 5: accused is so familiar. He'd been accused of drug trafficking
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: and threatening America's interest in the Panama Canal. For Senior
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: called his invasion operation just cause There's more. Democrat Bill Clinton,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: with authorization from NATO not Congress bombed the hell out
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: of Slobodon Belosovich in Yugoslavia. Slobo only gave up when
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: Clinton threatened without Congress to put US troops quote back
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 5: on the table. Then yet another Democrat, a former teacher
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: of constitutional law, you figure knew something about this stuff.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: Barack Obama launched more than five hundred and forty separate
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 5: drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, killing soldiers and civilians,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 5: including American citizens. And that's not including strikes in the
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 5: undeclared war zones of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya, all
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 5: without a peep from big mouth congressional Democrats. Last, and
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: by all measures least, Joe Biden or his auto pen
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: raised a bounty on the head of Nicholas Maduro. Good
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 5: old Joe would never kill anyone. He just hires somebody
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: to do it. And hiring somebody to kill an head
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: of state probably is an active war. Fellow Democrats once
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: again said nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Folks.
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  Speaker 5: My point is that undeclared wars for seventy five years
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: have been made waged when it was still at least
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 5: the possibility of bipartisan authorization. Now in twenty twenty six.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 5: No one who follows politics, certainly nobody in your brilliant audience.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: Brian believes Democrats would ever back any action by Donald J.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Trump.
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  Speaker 5: As recently as a year ago, I would have bet
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: against Senator Chuck Schumer selling out Israel to Hamas. Yet
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: the Senate Minority leader cannot or trying to retain power,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: will not even back Trump peace agreements in the Middle East.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: So where does that leave us in a constitutional mess?
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: The president is not only commander in chief. Article two,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 5: Section three of the Constitution also requires that presidents take
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 5: care to faithfully execute the laws, including drug laws allegedly
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: broken by narco terrorists, as Bush did against Noriega. So yes,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: Congress has the power to declare war, but the need
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 5: to declare war is still debated, even under the nineteen
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: seventy three War Powers Resolution. Personally, Brian, I believe in
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 5: the Constitution yet, but I also believe the Constitution is
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 5: not a suicide pact barring any possibility of consensus of compromise.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 5: I do not believe in paralysis. Ultimately, I believe in
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 5: the ballot box, as Maduro and Putin and Jijiungping do not.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 5: If voters disagree with an American president about these disputed issues.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: They can vote for a new Congress every two years,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 5: including this year, and a new president every four years. Meantime,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: the inability, the unwillingness of Congress to act at least
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: when a Republican is in power, I believe stems from
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: something other than the Constitution. Congress is driven by the
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 5: entirely different way Republicans and Democrats see people. So maybe
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 5: we can talk about that next.
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  Speaker 1: But I did want to pass along to you or
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: my comment in response to judgment of paul A Tana's column,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: which I'm going to talking with him about a day
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: thirty and not surprisingly the same subject matter, the extra
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: constitutional waging of war in spot what the Constitution say?
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  Speaker 1: And you know? I said, you know, I asking him
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: sort of rhetorically. Are you and I merely dinosaurs with
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: our respect for the Constitution? I said, I speak with
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: so many people on the topic of war and always
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: end up runing into the same conclusion decades as you
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: just went through, of unchecked consequence, free unilateral decision making
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: on matters of war now serve as a legal justification
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: for further unilateral decisions. I even suggested to it. It's
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: almost like the concept of waiver estopel or latches, you know,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: if you let something go long enough that you can't
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: assert the law as you know, as a vehicle to
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: stop that from happening. Again. No, we've been doing this
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: for so long you've waived your right to make the argument.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: You get back to mazag day and in fifty three
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: Ellen Days seventy three you mentioned nor Jegan eighty nine.
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  Speaker 1: You could go through a whole bunch of others. I mean,
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: even the Bay of Pigs. Was that an authorized military
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: force to overthrow castor after we helped them, you know,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: win in Cuba, don't know.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, Brian, in fairness, I didn't include
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 5: Ronald Reagan and Grenada exactly. Of course, a much more
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 5: limited action.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, go ahead, now, you and I could
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  Speaker 1: put our minds together and talk about a whole bunch
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: of actions along those same lines. And that's an excellent
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: additional point. It just says that all the you know,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: the designated strikes in these foreign lands with missiles, as
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, with Obama and everybody else seemed to doing.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: And I concluded with it seems that Congressional in action.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: In other words, ignoring the Constitution is perhaps the desired,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: accepted norm across the political spectrum. The Democrats do it
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: when they're in power. The Republicans scream and wale and
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: moan about the Constitution, yet do nothing by way of
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: congressional action or anything else to stop it from happening.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: And then look who put the bounty on Medoro last year,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden? Was it twenty five million or fifty million dollars?
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, if there's a bounty on someone's head, doesn't
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: that mean you expect someone to go and collect the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: bounty after grabbing the head and bringing it forth. Who's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: going to do that? Nobody but the American military is
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: going to enter into a foreign country and grab the leader.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: Yet there it was the dangling carrot of a bounty
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: out there. So we make good on it through the
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: Trump administration, and they scream and yell about it, and
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: yet you don't see really anything happening in respond. So
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: it's sort of this in action in it allows for
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: the expedient mechanism of dealing with what you talked about
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: that you know, you don't want the Constitution to just,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: you know, turn us into this easy sitting target, but
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: it is still there. The authority rest within Congress. I
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: just think they prefer it this way because it's well
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: they have to face the voters. They may get voted
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: out of office if they do vote in favor of military
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: action or against military action. They don't want to have
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: to deal with it. They wash their hands of it,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: blaming it Trump or whoever the sitting president is, and
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: go about their merry business.
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  Speaker 5: I always feel, as I bet you Drew Twopell, when
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: we're talking about the good Judge Neapolitano, that I'm back
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: in law school, and I certainly don't want to disagree
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 5: with the professor. It's hard enough just to try to
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: answer his questions. But a few thoughts. Judge Napolitano, who's
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 5: probably about my age, doesn't remember Jefferson sending the Marines
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: to the shores of Tripa, Le Libya, to free America
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: and fight Barbary pirates. But presumably he would have opposed
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: that two hundred years ago, not long after the Monroe
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 5: Doctrine was propelled by President James Monroe. And I assume
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 5: that Judge Depolitano was against the idea of refusing to
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: let Europeans colonize our hemisphere as today Cuba, Russia and
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: Red China and Iran. I have tried installing surrogates in Venezuela,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: and that's what we put a stop to. You know
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: the thing, it seems to be Brian and maybe we
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: can talk about this next week. There are certain people
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 5: who remind me of my old friend, the ancient Greek
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: philosopher Zeno, who can prove to you why it's impossible
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: to move from point A to point B. I won't
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: give away the answer to that famous riddle, but we cannot,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: as I say, paralyze ourselves. And I'm not sure that
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 5: I agree with the premise of what you're saying. That
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: the Constitution is clear on the president not having the
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: power to act militarily. I doe with the idea that Congress,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: not necessarily with conscious deliberation, but obviously setting a pattern,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: do not oppose presidents when they simply don't want to
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: get involved.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: Let's pause, will bring Jack back. He had a comment
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: or two that we didn't get to yet. How democrats
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: see people. Will pause, bring Jack Avidan back with the
• 1:23:17
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  Speaker 1: adad In we pivot over to his perception of how
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: Democrats see people, just real quick, the Monroe doctor. And
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: that wasn't a legal document, it wasn't a treaty, it
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't a statute. It was a foreign policy statement by
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: President Monroe. Which, of course, if you want to agree
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: with and follow through with that foreign policy statement involving
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: matters of war, you might expect some measure of congressional involvement.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: But now you've got the Donro doctor where he's trying
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: to shore up this hemisphere and keep the Chinese out
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: and keep the Russians out. I understand the concern and
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: the predicate for that, but you know, it is a
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: foreign policy statement. He is responsible for foreign policy. But
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: along with that comes well taxpayer dollars and military resources
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: and all the things that go along with you know,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: establishing and following through with any given foreign policy statements.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: I'd had to say that out loud, Jack, because we
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: talk about the Monroe doctrine is if it's almost part
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: of the Constitution, but it never was.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: Big Dohn is acting on the don Rohe doctrine, and
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 5: if Congress doesn't like it, they can act. Expoters, of course,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 5: can act in November, and I'm afraid they might in
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: a way that we don't like, but we'll see. Anyway,
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  Speaker 5: Let's move on from war and talk about something really important.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 5: Tis the season for losing weight, or at least for
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: resolving to do that so we feel better and also
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 5: so people see us differently. Let's consider this in the
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 5: context of politics, the very different way democrats and Republicans
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: see people. You and I and most folks who tune
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: intend to agree about most things. Where constitutional conservators and
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: libertarians many of us are Trump supporters, mega populists. Those
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 5: are not just labels. They define how we see the world.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: While we may differ sharply on certain issues, including Venezuela,
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  Speaker 5: we embrace what I call the American idea that power
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Therefore, like
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  Speaker 5: the Founders, we demand a government that protects the God
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  Speaker 5: given rights of individuals and allows us to pursue happiness
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  Speaker 5: and prosperity as we see fit. So long as we
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 5: don't infringe on the rights of others. We believe in
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: bottom up government. In sharp contrast, today's big government socialists
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 5: see individuals very differently as members of their collective. In
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: his inaugural speech, New York's new mayor, Zoran Mamdani just
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: promised to replace quote the rigidity of rugged individual dualism
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: with the warmth of collectivism ene and in New York
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: if he gets his way. Democrats claim they care about people,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: especially needy, downtrodden people victims, but they do not seek
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: to empower them. Take education. Democrats in power not students
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: and parents, but teacher unions, which benefit from keeping children illiterate.
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  Speaker 5: The worse their test scores, the more taxpayer funding they demand.
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  Speaker 5: In Baltimore, a Democrat run city, as most big cities
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 5: now are, including Cincinnati and Dayton, public schools spend more
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: than twenty one thousand dollars per pupil. Teachers make on
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 5: average between seventy two and ninety nine thousand dollars plus
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: gold plated pensions, and yet the overwhelming majority of students
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: in Baltimore cannot read or do math. When the schools
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 5: push them through graduation. Anyway, the kids lack basic skills
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  Speaker 5: to support themselves, so as Democrats intended all along, these
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: students will be wards of the state, and Democrats will
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: rake off the top a hefty percentage of the welfare
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: spending students received throughout life because the Democrat collective collects
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 5: campaign contributions, kickbacks, crony contracts for donors, and outright bribes.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 5: Nancy Pelosi's father was mayor of Baltimore. That's where Nancy
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 5: learned the racket. That public servant and her husband Paul
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: are now worth more than four hundred million dollars. We
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: could connect the dots in the same way when it
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: comes to big government spending on healthcare, housing, food, the
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 5: entire life of Julia. That's what you remember Obama called
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: his cradle to graves spending plan for voters rich and poor,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: who were thereby made totally dependent on totalitarian government. Folks
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 5: think of the irony, the despicable irony Democrats not that
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 5: long ago, with a party of slavery Africans being kidnapped
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 5: and shipped here so they could work. Now, Democrats support
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 5: millions of illegal immigrants invading this country, so they can
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: live off the collective representative. Ilan Omar's net worth has
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: jumped from approximately zero when our Somalian family were granted
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 5: asylum to thirty million dollars with their husband today. Is
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 5: it coincidental that fraudulent government funds for Somali preschools and
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 5: other programs in Minnesota total more than nine billion dollars
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: in counting. Democrats, who used to shackle slaves, now enslaved voters,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: from illiterate inner city students without fathers, to academics enslaved
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 5: by liberal orthodoxy, to so called journalists who have to
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 5: tow the liberal line, to multinational business owners who defend
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 5: so called free trade that ships vital industries off to
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: communist China with its starvation wages and terras on American imports. Brian,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 5: the essence of Democrat politics is to dehumanize individuals and
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 5: make them abjectly dependent on the state. For now, I
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  Speaker 5: can come on your show and talk about this, But
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: what will happen if Democrats win Congress this November and
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: the White House in twenty twenty eight and America returns
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: to the British model of outlawing free speech, which is
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: what they're doing right now. Look, Republicans are not perfect,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: and when we champion the American idea, when we resolve
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 5: as our founders did to protect individual rights and responsibilities,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 5: America can still lead the entire world into a golden age,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 5: including those dictatorships that are attacking America, as Maduro did
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 5: with the aid of Cuba, Russia, Iran, and communist China.
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  Speaker 5: Until that happens, it's not enough to celebrate seventeen seventy six.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 5: We need to speak out, donate, and work. You do
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  Speaker 5: this every morning. So what do you say, my friend?
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  Speaker 1: I say, There's not a word I could utter that
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: can improve upon what you just got done saying. And
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to encourage my listeners to grab a hold
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  Speaker 1: and share Jack's words with your friends. Jack Atherton as
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: always profoundly brilliant. I love you man. Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do this again next Wednesday with another big picture
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  Speaker 1: and I can't thank you for being on my program.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait. Thank you, Brian, Happy New Year again. Seven
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  Speaker 1: twenty six ifty five k SIT Talk Stations. Well, you
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do this year, and
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: I know we can help out my listening. Andy can
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: certainly help out by working with AFP provides all the
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: guidance you need to get involved in politics. Welcome back, Donovan.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new year, and a happy new year to you,
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  Speaker 1: sir Brian.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a big year, and I'm so
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 4: excited to be back at it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's yeah, and I know we're gonna be talking
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: about the twenty twenty six election a lot this year.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 1: Of course, we've got opportunities here. I just a little
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  Speaker 1: concerned about the typical norm, which is the party in
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: power loses seats in the House and in the Senate,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if that's going to happen this year,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: but we do have that to face. But I'm a
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: little concerned about this because one of the topics on
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: the list you wanted to talk about was not returning
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: COVID era subsidies. Of course, I just had a conversation
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: by Cincinnati's budget with the former vice mayor of the
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati. One of the problems we're having in
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: the city is because the covid money dried up and
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: they don't have it to hang their hat on anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So they got a big hole in their budget. We
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: weren't supposed to be relying on that. Beyond the outbreak
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  Speaker 1: of COVID. It's long since gone. And they're still talking
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  Speaker 1: about subsidies.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and these in particular, are these Obamacare subsidies
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: right that were enacted that funnel three hundred billion dollars. Yeah,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: not to patients, not to actually bring other premiums, but
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: to the health insurance companies who are lobbying like is
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: you can imagine, Brian, to.
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  Speaker 8: Keep this in place.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 4: And for some baffling reason, right, Democrats are continuing their
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  Speaker 4: fifteen year march towards saying, if you just give us
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: a little more time, Obamacare will work. It's not working, Brian,
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  Speaker 4: and we need to keep Republicans from signing onto this
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: thing and trying to help make it happen because it's
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  Speaker 4: broken and it's making our healthcare premiums cost so much more.
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  Speaker 4: But fraud, wasted abuse too, Brian. I'm a bit fired
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: up about this one because it hit us instantly at
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 4: the beginning of the new year. But you know, fraud, waste,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: and abuse is one of the things they say, Well, hey,
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  Speaker 4: what if we root some of that out and we
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 4: really make sure the money goes to the patients. This time,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 4: I point to usaid, there's not enough fraud, waste and
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  Speaker 4: abuse protections you could have put into place on that
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  Speaker 4: corrupt slush fund to make it work for whatever intended purposes.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: It has the same things here with these COVID subsidies.
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  Speaker 4: There's not enough fraud, waste and abuse protections you could
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  Speaker 4: put in place. I just don't trust the Federal Garment
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  Speaker 4: to be able to do it right, to make sure
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  Speaker 4: that that money actually goes for its intended purposes.
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  Speaker 1: It's just bad. Well, I mean, we've been struggling with
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  Speaker 1: this whole concept of funneling money to non governmental organizations
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: and then not doing any follow up work to see
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  Speaker 1: if what they promised to do is actually been done.
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  Speaker 1: That's one element, But when you talk about USA, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the fraud, waste and abuse at the end,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: but it's also the motivation to give anyone the money
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. No, I don't want to fund
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  Speaker 1: shrimp on treadmill research in China. I mean, what the hell?
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: Who chose that and who decided that was a worthy
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: thing to spend tax payer dollars on. But it's just
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  Speaker 1: a long or one of a long, long list of
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: stupid programs we're paying for, and whether or not they
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: bore any fruit seems immaterial. The idea that it even
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  Speaker 1: started in the first place is batcrap insane.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and the same thing with these Biden Earic
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  Speaker 4: covid subsidies that Greg Landsmen congresson. Greg Landsman is very
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: likely going to vote on extending for three more years tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: We don't need this money going to the insurance companies
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: that annually jack up premium prices and do nothing, nothing,
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  Speaker 4: Brian to actually bring down the cost of healthcare. They're
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: incentivized with this program to enroll people who don't even
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 4: need health insurance. Right, we need to just end those
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: programs and focus on policies that are going to empower patients,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 4: for programs like HSA's that are going to bring price transparency.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot that can be done, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: involve just shoveling billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars over
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  Speaker 4: to the insurance companies continue a failed Obamacare Biden Covid
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  Speaker 4: era program.
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  Speaker 1: Well, honestly, all those subsidies do is mask the failure
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  Speaker 1: of Obamacare. The premium dollars cover the money that goes
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  Speaker 1: out the door to cover claims. That's an obvious thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way the private insurance market because they so
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: many people who are sick, and on Obamacare, the expenditures
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: goes through the roof. But if you give someone a subsidy,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: it masks the actual cost of that by hiding the
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: increase in premium that would necessarily follow a massive influx
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  Speaker 1: of claims on the program. I mean, it's just the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing was designed to fail from the get go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, and that's funny you say that, because
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  Speaker 4: that is the we were saying that fifteen years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Right when Obamacare is going in, it is to break,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 4: it is to build a house of cards, because you
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 4: know this, right, Progressives Democrats, the ends justify the means
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: for them in this case, right, And so making people
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: pay more in premiums, hurting families with rising costs to
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 4: in that march towards a single payer health care system
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 4: is what they're in the pursuit of here.
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  Speaker 2: And if we extend the subsidies.
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  Speaker 4: We're just further fueling that dysfunction and broken policy making
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  Speaker 4: that's going to lead us to that eventual conclusion. We
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: don't have to go there, though, Brian. We can turn
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  Speaker 4: the page, rechart the course, and actually enact policies that
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: we know as conservatives are going to unleash abundance in
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: the healthcare space again, most importantly by bringing down costs
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: and empowering patients.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, reducing the regulatory burden on the healthcare industry
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: generally speaking might go a long way to reduce overall
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: costs of health care generally. But who am I to
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: say on that? Moving over to candidates, we had talked
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: about some of the state wide candidates you were in
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: that AFP was supporting going into the November election. How
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: about Zach Haynes.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, really excited to break the news on this one
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 4: here this morning with you. We're going to have a
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: larger announcement probably next week with a few more races
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: around the state. But I feel like I come on
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 4: your show, Brian, and I tell your listeners about all
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: these other races we're working on in like Toledo and
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 4: Cleveland and Columbus, and we've got a real winner here
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 4: in southwest Ohioai, Zach Haynes. We're excited to endorse him.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 4: He's running for State Senate in the seventh Senate district
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 4: that's going to be current State Senator Steve Wilson's being
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: term limitted out. It covers upper north East Hamilton County
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 4: and all of Warren County. I don't know if you've
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 4: had an opportunity to talk with Zach before, but when
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 4: he came to our office side down talk with him
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: about some of the things we need to do to
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  Speaker 4: move Ohio in a big, bull transformational way. I was
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 4: blown away with his passion, energy, and I think he's
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 4: going to be a real fighter should the voters decide
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 4: to send him to Columbus later this year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know Joe Strucker, executed Executive producer, will work
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: hard to get Zach on the program to talk about that,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate your endorsement of him and pivoting over.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: One more thing to talk about. V v Ramaswami, of course,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: currently running unopposed. He's already received the statewide Republican endorsement.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's a lock for V. Vague he has
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  Speaker 1: selected a running mate. What do you feel about Rob McCauley.
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  Speaker 4: So, actually, personally, I've known Rob McCauley since he was
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 4: a state representative in northwest Ohio.
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  Speaker 7: My wife and I lived up there.
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  Speaker 4: Rob is a phenomenal conservative. He is somebody who, through
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 4: the years that I've known him, being a legislator in
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: both the House and the Senate and most recently the
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 4: Senate President, fight to lower taxes. In fact, his chamber
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  Speaker 4: was the chamber moved that introduced an amendment to the
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  Speaker 4: state budget that made ohioly flat tax state. That was
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: the Senate Chamber led by him currently, that got that
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: into the budget and made it happen. Lowering taxes, cutting
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 4: red tape, curbing spending, empowering families with school choice. Rob
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  Speaker 4: McCauley is the true I mean, he's the real deal.
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  Speaker 4: If you get a meet him, you get to talk
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 4: to him, you'll realize that very quickly. And there were
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: a lot of good folks floated to be of a
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  Speaker 4: Vakes running mate, but I think Rob McCauley is top tier.
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  Speaker 4: And one is going to be the kind of guy,
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  Speaker 4: right if the VEK is that visionary who's going to
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 4: chart a bold course for the state. Rob the kind
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: of guy who understands what it's going to take to
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: work with the legislature to get that agenda passed and through,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 4: which isn't always a guaranteed thing, even in a super
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 4: majority Republican state like Ohio. So I'm really excited about Rob,
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  Speaker 4: not just as a friend of mine, but as somebody
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  Speaker 4: who I've seen legislate. I've seen sat in interested party
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: meetings in Columbus with legislators and lobbyists. He's a real
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: deal and Vivke's lucky to have him.
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  Speaker 1: As I pointed out when we started talking again, Donovan,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperities provides an opportunity for the listeners to
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: really get engaged and get involved. Call to action, Donovan,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: where do we need to go to keep up with
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  Speaker 1: things if we want to help out.
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  Speaker 11: Buckeye Blueprint dot Com.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to have a lot of updates of Buckeye
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 4: Blueprint dot Com over the next few weeks as we
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 4: get things fired up for this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big year.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to need as many people as we can
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  Speaker 4: to lockshields with us and help make this happen.
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  Speaker 1: Be part of the solution. Buckeye Blueprint dot Com work
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  Speaker 1: with AFP Donald O'Neil. I enjoy our discussions. I'll look
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  Speaker 1: forward to next week with another one. Keep up the
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  Speaker 1: great working again to you and everyone at AFP. A
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  Speaker 1: very happy new year you as well.
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  Speaker 7: Brian, take care.
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  Speaker 1: Seventh thirty nine here fifty five care see detalk station
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  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Steve Belzo, Cleima County Veteran Services is
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about little veteran related needs. Tons of services
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  Speaker 1: offered by the Clement County Veteran Services and every county
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  Speaker 1: has one. Steve Belzo is with the Clermont County Veteran Services.
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  Speaker 1: They do a fantastic job and Steve is always a
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  Speaker 1: pleasure having in the studio. Man. Welcome back and a
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  Speaker 1: happy near to you and everybody else at Clemon County
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  Speaker 1: Veteran Services.
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  Speaker 12: Brian brother, thanks for what you do for us, and
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 12: it is. It's a good new year, so we'll try
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  Speaker 12: it off the ground. We're not pushing up daisies. We
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 12: may complain about small ailments, but yet we're still breathing.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I'm telling you off area here. It's
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: the seventh of January, and I feel like we've already
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: is enough profoundly impactful news stories for like six months
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: worth of life, right right?
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  Speaker 12: Actually, yeah, we have news commentators that are speed reading
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 12: right now after are teleprompters. There's so much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's always though, something positive in all of the mix,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: as you just pointed out, so that we're gonna be
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: positive about going into the new year. So you run
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: into little, you know, the lemons that life will hand,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: you make lemonade out of them, or just search around
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: for something else that is positive, and you'll at least
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: have that to look at and be thankful for, which
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: is what I try to do as I live my
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  Speaker 1: life now with that in mind. My veteran friends out there,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: we have talked about some common misconceptions, and it always
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  Speaker 1: puzzled me that it seemed to me that a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: worth of health care, which is what you are pretty
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: much entitled to as long as you faithfully serve your
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: country and get a DD two fourteen discharge edition, is
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: kind of an incentive. It's like a pension program. You know,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: if there's a job offering you a pension and one
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: that's not, you might consider the pension job because that's
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: an extra perk that somebody else isn't offering. So you
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: may not make all the money in the world serving
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: your country, but you're doing something that's profoundly important. It
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: shows profound respect for your country. You're defending our nation
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: from adversaries foreign and domestic. And you also get a
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: livetime of free health care almost almost almost. There are
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: categories in there, honest, and that's why we have you.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: But that's right that veterans who are eligible for it
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  Speaker 1: just pass on it or don't sign up. This is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to try to focus on today.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely, there's yeah, there's if you can consider this in
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 12: this matrix, here's Joe and when did you serve and
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 12: how many years? And you're following this flow chart. But
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 12: it's what's running in the mind of many veterans of
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 12: you know, there's especially from our older generation, our parents,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 12: the children that grew from parents that came through the depression.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 12: You straighten every nail, you throw it in the bucket,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 12: you pick up every penny. Nothing goes to waste. There's
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 12: only a limited amount to go around. There's victory gardens
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 12: going in and so those children from those parents, well,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 12: I don't want to go to get to the VA
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 12: and get a set of hearing aids because I can
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 12: hear the TV if I turn it up loud enough. Well,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 12: so can three apartments down here in your TV. But
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 12: yet they're afraid that if I take those hearing aids,
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 12: another veteran that needs a more than me is not
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 12: going to get their hearing aids. And that's an upside
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 12: down way to think about it, because the VA actually
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 12: gets their budget off of the amount of veterans signed
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 12: up for healthcare, which means they're going to get a
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 12: bigger budget and they can afford more hearing aids and
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 12: they're not going to run out of stock.
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  Speaker 1: Right And I among my listening audience and my personal
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  Speaker 1: perception is, you know, if there is a worthy expenditure
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: of taxpayer dollars, our veteran community is a worthy expenditure,
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: you know, because we're filled with the government likes to
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: pay for literally every thing. Most of it is batcrap, insane,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: but these are folks that, you know, literally put their
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: lives on the line.
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  Speaker 12: It's going back to the founding father, maybe Abraham Lincoln,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 12: whether you consider him founding father or not yet for
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 12: him to quote, to care for him who has.
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  Speaker 1: Borne the battle exactly.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 12: He's been the presence of America either on foreign shores
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 12: for our interests.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, for that veteran who wasn't getting
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: the hearing aids turning the TV up, and not only
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: is that person overlooking the cognitive decline and other health
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: issues that will go along with that. Absolutely, by not
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: getting the hearing aids the V eight, he's maybe reducing
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: the likelihood that somebody else is going to get hearing
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: aids because of funding levels.
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  Speaker 12: Because of funding levels, or he's spending six to eight
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  Speaker 12: thousand dollars out on the open market. That's yeah, I
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 12: know for us out of hearing aids, right, I mean
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 12: they're expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like to hope that the government has haggled
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: and negotiated a good contract for hearing aids that they're
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: not fitting at full rate. Reject that comment, right then,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: so and the other consipt. You didn't have to serve
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: in combat or be injured while serving your country to
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: be eligible for VA benefits. I guess that's another thing
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: that runs through some of the veterans' minds.
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  Speaker 12: So a lot of them consider yes. Short answer. Typically
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 12: we look at as a veteran, what were my injuries
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 12: on active duty and what is the VA going to
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 12: do about them? Because my life has been hindered by
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 12: my injuries from active duty. But yet the VA still
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 12: has a healthcare program where I just pay a colpay.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 12: And so if I'm fifty percent disabled or more by
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 12: the VA, then my healthcare is free through the VA.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 12: But if I'm ten percent, zero percent, I can still
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 12: get healthcare through the VA. It might come with a
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 12: small col pay, but I can still have a primary
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 12: care physician at the VA.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 12: But now, the great thing about Cincinnati, right is the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 12: VA has done a tremendous this job here locally in
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 12: picking up It's not just its service, but it's impression
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 12: as well.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: Yep, veterans have told you that, yes, you survey them regularly.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 12: I have a friend of the family who's gone through
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 12: cancer and the VA has taken him through every step,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 12: and he says, I hear all the stories, but I
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 12: will tell you I'm an advocate for the Cincinnati VA.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 12: They've treated me so well. What more do you need?
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: Nothing? Not any more than that. And then, of course
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of veterans are awesome hires. If an employer
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: is looking for a quality worker, hire a veteran. Along
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: with getting a job quite often comes your medical insurance
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: from your employer, and a lot of veterans out there
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: have that and perhaps think that just because I have
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: insurance from my employer, I shouldn't even bother with the VA.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 12: So here's here's here's some of the anomalies. So I
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 12: retired from active duty, I have trycare. I get it
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 12: for the rest of my life. I get health care
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 12: by the government. I also, because I work for the county,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 12: have health care through the county. But because of my disabilities,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 12: I also have health care through the VA. So I
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 12: actually have three programs I can run with, but I
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 12: use the VA because I'm no longer paying for a
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 12: copay for my medications. All my prescriptions I get ninety
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 12: days at a time. I call the phone number they
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 12: set up appointments for me. It's a phenomenal way to have.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 12: I really don't need the other two in that sense,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 12: but it's I'm not your everyday Joe, I guess. But
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 12: to have that opportunity, even if I do go to
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 12: work to one. Tell mister employer, man, hey, if I
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 12: decline your health care because I have healthcare at the VA,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 12: will you bump me up an extra six ten K?
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 12: You would be paying for my health care.
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  Speaker 1: I like that, right, Hey? The fools, the one that's
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: not looking out for his own best interests. It's worth
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: asking the question anyway.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely, it's it's a no until you do ask. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love the first time you brought that one up.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: That is people the wheels are spitting out their heads,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: right dot h I'm gonna try that one out. They
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: can almost smell it. They're remaining minute we've got here.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: You can enroll online. This does not require a trip
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: to the VA hospital to do this.
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  Speaker 12: No, the initial it's a ten ton easy. That's just
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 12: submitting to start your healthcare. They're gonna look at your records.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 12: If you have a copy of d D two fourteen,
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 12: you uproll it there. If not, they'll search records for it.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 12: But you can VA dot gov apply from your home
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 12: on your computer.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have any questions or how to do that,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: the climat County Veteran Services will help you through the
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: process as well, won't.
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  Speaker 12: They claimont County Veterans dot com or five to one
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  Speaker 12: three seven three two seven three six three.
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  Speaker 1: And one concluding point, as I find out, there is
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: not a waiting period after active duty for a veteran
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: to enroll in the VA, So just you know you
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: get discharged. Head on over the website sign up.
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  Speaker 12: They're doing a great job for veterans leaving active duty
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 12: right now that they're assessing them prior to leaving. I've
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 12: been asked for that for years. At We're not completely
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 12: there at my base station right so, your larger camps
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 12: or forts or stations are having more availability of that type.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 12: Your smaller locations, some of your snake eater locations out
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 12: in the woods probably won't have that. They're gonna have
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 12: to go to a bearer one. But we're starting to
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 12: roll that out.
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  Speaker 1: Man. We should get that in place everywhere. Listen, you
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: got them right there, they're still serving. Give them the
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: information about enrollment or just enroll them right there.
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  Speaker 12: Their physicians are there right now. I know the Nexus letters.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 12: I mean everything to support them.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Belsa, God bless you, sir. I appreciate what you're
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: doing with the veterans. I love your enthusiasm. I'd love
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: your profound appreciation for veterans and everything that you do
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: to help improve the services at the VA. You got
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: any problems, the VA wants to know about it, so
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: please make sure you let them know if you run
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: into an issue, be nice about it, but they'll do
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: everything they can to address any concerns you have while there.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: That is, Steve, a great year we're going to have together.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: We look forward to having you back on man.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I can't wait till next month.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks Brian, keep up the great work. Vanguard of the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: American has caused Gary Minoy hoping pronouncing that name correctly.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: He's going to join the program with his book after
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: the top of the our news then of course.
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  Speaker 4: Necessary PGWO what did my lost terms?
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  Speaker 6: Conditions twenty one LUs.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a mad tree brew today, Summit Park,
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: Luash location and without further Ado really excited about talking
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: with Gary Benoy. He's the editor in chief of The
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: New American, which is a political affiliate to the John
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: Birch Society, and author of the book we're going to
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: be speaking about today Today Vanguard of Americans caused a
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: close look at the John Birch Society. He's been a
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: member of the JBS since joining as a teenager back
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty eight, been a member of its staff
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: since seventy seven, Editor of the New American in nineteen
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: eighty six, and he's assumed his current position is editor
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: in Chief since twenty twenty one. Over the years, he
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: served as director of The Birch Society's Research Department, editor
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: of the John Birch Society, Bolton, and the publisher of
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: the New American. Welcome to the fifty five Case Morning Show,
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: Gary Benoit. It's a real pleasure to have you on
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: the program, sir, It's a.
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  Speaker 11: Pleasure beyond Brian, and thank you so much for inviting me.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: Oh happy to And you know, I was thinking about it.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: John Birch Society has been the target of the slings
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: in a arrows of outrage for years. You know, we
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: people call conspiracy theorists, and then we kind of call
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: them pattern observers. And you hear these crazy ideas and
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: these and these conclusions about things, and you dismissed them
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: as ah, come on, that's not going on. And then
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: next thing, you know, wait for a few years, and
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: it turns out, well, you know what, that conspiracy theorist
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: ie pattern observer turns out to be right. That's basically
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: the John Bursa Society.
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  Speaker 11: And that's absolutely true. And of course there were people
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 11: who dismissed us many years ago because they did think
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 11: that what we're saying was crazy. And a perfect example
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 11: would be the John Birch Society's position to get us
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 11: out of the United Nations. And back in the nineteen
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 11: seventies we had a major billboard campaign to get us
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 11: out of the UN Nation. I remember the people yes,
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 11: and people laughed at that, because, my goodness, isn't the
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 11: United Nations mankind's last us hope for peace. But what
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 11: we were saying at the time is no, that's not true,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 11: that this is a world government tramp and that an
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 11: organization large enough to bring about global peace could also
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 11: so used the power to impose global tyranny. And over
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 11: the years, people have realized that that is the case,
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 11: and more and more people agree that we need to
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 11: get out of the United Nations. So that's just one
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 11: example of where people thought we were crazy but then
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 11: learn over time that we were correct.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, that's one of the benefits Gary and
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: I might observe Gary about the modern age. As critical
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: as I may be about the garbage that the Internet
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: is and all the downsides of it, at least we
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: have real time information about what is going on, like
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: how many people paid attention to you and votes outside
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: of the John Birch Society and those within the UN
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: going back to the sixties or seventies, like, what are
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: they doing? I have no idea. What you oh there?
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: It is the UN downtown New York. What are they doing?
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: We have no idea. Nobody paid attention to it. You know,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: Walter Konkait wasn't selecting pieces for his thirty minute news
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: program about the evils or what's going on inside the
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: United Nations. Now we know we have crazy dictatorships and
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: countries put on like, for example, the Human Rights Council,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: Like wait a second, they throw gay people off of buildings,
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: and yet here they are as part of the UN
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: Human Rights Group. This doesn't make any sense, I guess,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: leading me to my question, Gary, why are we still
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: part of it? Is it really just one giant, concentrated
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: spy organization where people from the various like the CIA
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: and MI six or five and are just gathering information
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: about foreign nations. It seems convenient to just draw that conclusion,
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: considering that apparently nothing gets done there.
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  Speaker 11: Well, actually, I think behind the scenes some things are
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 11: getting done, but they are things that are bad for
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 11: American independence and things that are bad for freedom, and
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 11: it's a step by step process. It's like putting a
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 11: frog into water and then you'd gradually turn up the
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 11: heat and before you know it, the frog is boiled.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 11: And that is the same thing today. And a good
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 11: example of that strategy would be all the propaganda with
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 11: regard to climate change. Once upon a time that you
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 11: used to be called global warming, now they call it
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 11: glama climate change. I think that's easier to big out
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 11: people regarding climate change because the weather does change from
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 11: season to season and whatnot. But that's use is a
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 11: pretext to bring about a global green regime, which ostensibly
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 11: is a safe planet Earth, but in reality is intended
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 11: to enslave planet Earth's Earth, where a few people will control.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: The many global wealth. Deep redistribution, that's what it happens, yeah, right,
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: taking away from the rich countries, force them to cut
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: their own throat in the name of removing plant food
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: from the environment. How preposterous is this, gary that we
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: have come to the point where plant food carbon dioxide
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: has been labeled a pollutant that we need to get
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: rid of.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, it really isn't crazy, isn't it, Because any
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 11: school child, even the people in elementary school should know
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 11: that CO two is the gas of life, and yet
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 11: this is now being portrayed by the would be totalitarians
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 11: and the people that are able to be kile looking
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 11: at CO two is a pollutant. So it is absolutely crazy.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 11: But the good news is that more and more people
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 11: are waking up, more and more people realize that freedom
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 11: is under attack. So the problem now is not so
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 11: much trying to point out to people that something is wrong.
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 11: That was a big problem back in the nineteen sixties
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 11: and nineteen seventies and whatnot, But the problem today much
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 11: more so is to show people that there is something
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 11: that can be done about it, and that the erosion
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 11: of our freedoms is not happenstance, that it has happened
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 11: because powerful people and high places are planning it that way.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 11: And the purpose of the John Birch Society, which is
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 11: founder in the nineteen fifty eight by a man named
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 11: Robert Welch, the purpose is number one, to expose that conspiracy,
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 11: and the other purpose is to bring about less government,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 11: more responsibility, and with God's help, a better world. And
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 11: the John Birch Society is not a political organization, at
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 11: least not in the political sense. Obviously it does deal
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 11: with political activism or political issues. But our belief is
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 11: that if we create the awareness and we get people
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 11: organized and involved, that that will be the sea change
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 11: that will make the difference, That that will affect how
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 11: people go into when they go into voting boots, that
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 11: that will cause people to hold the seat of the
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 11: politicians who take an oath to the Constitution to the
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 11: fire and ensure that they either support that boat and
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 11: how they vote, or that they themselves will get voted
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 11: out of office.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: Look yesterday, Gary Binoyd, he is the author of a
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: book you need to get a hold of, and it's
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: a Lincoln on my blog page, sir, that people can
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: easily get a copy of Vanguard the American has cost,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: which talks about the John Vertus Society's history, what they've done,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: what they've accomplished, the challenges they face, and of course
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: his history with them. Now, let us give us a
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: nefarious example of how this climate nonsense and plant food
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: that's killing the world. United Nations Agenda twenty thirty. When
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: I read the information about this, I think it's creeping
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: into the greater Cincinnati area. Our current mayor is interested
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: in what they call the connected communities, the sort of
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: one size fits all concerts, traded housing. Does this sound
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: familiar to you?
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  Speaker 11: What it sure does. It's actually one of the seventeen
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  Speaker 11: development goals for the United Nations, sustainable development goals. Of
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 11: course they call it sustainable development, but what is really
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  Speaker 11: meant by sustainable is that ostensibly the affluent lifestyle the
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  Speaker 11: American people, the family home, having private transportation, being able
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  Speaker 11: to get in your own car and drive the work
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  Speaker 11: and whatnot, all these things are now considered unsustainable by
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  Speaker 11: the powers that be and by the United Nations. And
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 11: so they don't want to say, well, they want to
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  Speaker 11: impromise us, but that what they call it instead is
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  Speaker 11: sustainable development. And what you were just talking about is
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  Speaker 11: a part of that strategy, This whole idea of fifteen
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  Speaker 11: minute cities and of regulations ostensibly to protect the environment,
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  Speaker 11: but what an actuality is intended to control us, to
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  Speaker 11: control the American people. And if that sounds crazy, I
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 11: would say, just look at what happened in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 11: with COVID, where in the name of fighting COVID, what
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 11: happened we were told to stay in our homes unless
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 11: we absolutely have to go out. Well, we were told
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 11: we could not go to work. Businesses had to close.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 11: Of course, large big box stores such as Walmart stayed open,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 11: but mom and pop stores were told to close. And
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 11: of course even churches were shuttered and who could go
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 11: leave Before twenty and twenty that something like that could
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 11: have happened in the United States of America. I look
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 11: at that as a trial balloon, is to what did
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  Speaker 11: thetalitarians want to accomplish in the future to make that
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  Speaker 11: permanent and to control us completely using as a pretext
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 11: environment and other issues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they certainly did trample on a right to free
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  Speaker 1: exercise of religion and the right to assemble, which are
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: both guaranteed by our constitutions. Seems to me the First
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: Amendment just got chucked out the window in the name
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: of all I don't know social distancing, which was a
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: made up consense as a concept as well, we did
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: learn a lot from that, and I don't ask you
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: to kind of read Tea Lees, but I think we
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: are all much smarter and much more in tune to
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: that kind of nefarious element going on. I'm not quite
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: sure that they can necessarily get away with it like
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: they did last time, or am I being too optimistic.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think they can to the same extent, But
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 11: I would say the biggest problem today is not, as
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 11: they said earlier, trying to convince people that something is wrong.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 11: The big problem today is convincing people that something can
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 11: be done about it. And the way to do that
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 11: is number one, to recognize that if we are going
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 11: to say and restore our freedoms, we have to do
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 11: it ourselves. We cannot depend on somebody else to do it.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 11: We cannot depend on a particular politician to do it.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 11: We have to do it ourselves. And the way to
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 11: do that is to become informed, become organized, apply concerted action,
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  Speaker 11: and work in communities all across the country to bring
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  Speaker 11: about the great Awakening, and again to insist that the
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  Speaker 11: people who represent us in Washington and the people who
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 11: represent us and the state houses that they abide by
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  Speaker 11: the Constitution. Of course, the Constitution itself shows that there
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 11: is still hope because we still have the Constitution, and
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  Speaker 11: as long as we have it, as soon as people
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 11: get organized and insists that we abide by the Constitution,
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 11: I believe that will solve the problem. But it's going
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 11: to take a lot of hard work.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that part of the un and jen is
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: also depopulation. And I know quite a few listeners always
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: bring this up regularly, and I mean, I guess it
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't work. China totalitarian regime where you have no rights.
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  Speaker 1: They had the one child policy and they are really
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: struggling and suffering from it mightily. You look at any
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: country in the world where this sort of Western concept
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: of selfishness and refusal to bring new life into the
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: world in spite of how great it is to do so,
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: has really taken hold. So Western countries have been convinced
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  Speaker 1: that having babies is bad. We're a bunch of cockroaches
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: killing the planet. It's too expensive to have children. Mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad both need to work. I mean, that's been
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  Speaker 1: kind of baked into the cake as well as this
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: religion of climate change. Has it not.
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely I agree to completely, Bryan. And actually, if we
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 11: could go back a few years, let's say go back
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  Speaker 11: to the nineteen fifties. And I was born in nineteen
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  Speaker 11: fifty three, so I remember the last part of the fifties.
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 11: I remember the sixties. But back then it was very
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 11: common for a family and family size is back then
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 11: were bigger, but very common for a family to have
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 11: just one way journer, and typically that was the dad.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 11: Typically he just worked one job. Oftentimes he just had
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  Speaker 11: in high school education. And yet he was able to
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  Speaker 11: support his family, again a family size typically being much
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 11: larger than today, and he was able to experience he
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 11: was able to live the American dream. He was able
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 11: to own his own home, he was able to have
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  Speaker 11: a car in the drive right way, and so forth.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 11: Yet look at where we are today. Were in order
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 11: to achieve these things, you have both the husband and
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 11: the wife working. Yet people deciding, well, we cannot have children.
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  Speaker 11: We have to postpone that, or we only can have
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 11: one or two children because things are so tough we
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  Speaker 11: can't afford it otherwise. And also, what can you accomplish
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  Speaker 11: today with a high school education in terms of earning
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  Speaker 11: the kind of living where you can live the American
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  Speaker 11: dream today? And of course many young people growing up
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 11: are watering will I ever be able to buy a home?
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  Speaker 11: Will I ever be able to have as good a
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 11: lifestyle as my parents have? So that is the transition
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  Speaker 11: that has taken place in this country over a couple generations.
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  Speaker 11: And on John Burgessiy. We believe that it has not happenstance,
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  Speaker 11: that that has been happening by design because of this conspiracy,
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 11: and an includes not just communists. I mean, it's easy
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 11: to say thimist conspiracy, and there is such a thing,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 11: but it's also a conspiracy of insiders. It's also the
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  Speaker 11: deep state. It's also people who are not themselves members
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  Speaker 11: of the Communist party, but they don't mind working with
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  Speaker 11: the Communists because they believe in the same thing communist do.
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  Speaker 11: Let's not forget that monopoly. A total monopoly would be
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 11: total government. You cannot have a bigger monopoly than that.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 11: And what happens when government has total power and say
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 11: people in big business, big medium, big government, and whatnot,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 11: they're working together and they will work with communists in
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 11: order to consolidate more and more government, leading to total government,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 11: and more and more internationalism leading to world government. So
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 11: that is the danger, and the solution is to simply
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  Speaker 11: expose that conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: And get a copy of the book Vanguard of the
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: Americans cause a close look at the John Birch Society,
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: the victories, some of the challenges they faced over the years. Hey,
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: they were on the front lines of these accusations of
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: craziness and conspiracy theory. But as we find out, you
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: wait long enough, guess who was right? Apparently it was
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: a John Bursh Society. Gary Benoy, thank you for sticking
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  Speaker 1: it out for all those years and being on the
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  Speaker 1: front lines of the regular attacks. I'm sure you've got
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of callous to show for it, but you're
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  Speaker 1: a great example to hold out for others to e
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  Speaker 1: to the challenge themselves.
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  Speaker 13: Five heavy us through lock On, Northbound, out of Arrowlinger
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  Speaker 13: into the cut. Everything is new in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 13: including our next guest coming up is the brand new
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  Speaker 13: draft consultant for the New York Giants, Judge Napolitano. You're
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  Speaker 13: on the clock, Chuck ingramont fifty five KR the Talk station,
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  Speaker 1: Car Ceed Talk Station. Well, you may not think big
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  Speaker 1: plans for the Bengals this year, but if Chuck Ingram
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: is right, got big plans for the Giants this year,
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  Speaker 1: I guess they're gonna do really well with Judge of
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  Speaker 1: Politano helping them out. Judge of Polaitano, Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Every Wednesday, at this
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  Speaker 1: time we get the Judge's stage, wisdom and insight, constitutional
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  Speaker 1: purest he may be, and maybe suffering some slings and
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  Speaker 1: arrows as a consequence of it, but we're running out.
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  Speaker 1: We're we're running out of people who are on our
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  Speaker 1: side of the ledger anymore, Judge of you are happy
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  Speaker 1: New Year.
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  Speaker 3: And also suffering slings and arrows of it, being a
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  Speaker 3: long suffering giant fan. If I had my druthers, I
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  Speaker 3: went to hire Bill Belichick as general manager. And as said.
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  Speaker 1: Coach, I like that. It's nice to have a little
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: misery loves company going on when you're a Bengals fan.
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  Speaker 1: So probably, well, you know, we understand where you're coming from,
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: Judge of Politano, and finding ourselves in a bit of
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: a minority with the most recent unilateral military action by
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: a president. And this happens with presidents of all political stripes.
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  Speaker 1: With this one, of course, we're dealing with Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: goes in middle night grabs Manuel Noriega and arey we
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: did that before. The predicate may have been Manuel Noriega,
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  Speaker 1: among others, Nicholas Madur and his wife for criminal violations.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems to me, Judge of Politano, if you're using,
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  Speaker 1: for example, Noriega as the predicate or the legal authority.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you'll have a word or two to
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  Speaker 1: say about that. To grab this guy, the idea that
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  Speaker 1: he was indicted by a federal grand jury and facing
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  Speaker 1: criminal charges for work that was unrelated to his position
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: as the president of a nation, in other words, making
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: money on the side, engaging in criminal activity. That's not
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: a presidential thing that we can grab him. But I
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  Speaker 1: think that is sort of the precondition of the predicate,
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: the sort of the thing that they're hanging their hat
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  Speaker 1: on in order to engage in what they're calling this
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: don Roe doctrine, to try to keep the Chinese out
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  Speaker 1: of the hemisphere, to try to keep the Russians out
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  Speaker 1: of the hemisphere, of course, to get rid of drugs
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: generally speaking, but to bring about some greater pro Western
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: stability here, I think was the goal. But you can't
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: go in and grab somebody just because they disagree with
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: you politically. Oh look, we've got a federal indictment for
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: criminal charges. We can use the Norriega example and go
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: grab him. And I know you disagree with all of that,
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  Speaker 1: but here we are.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I do disagree with all of it because we
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  Speaker 3: have this thing called the Constitution, then we have a
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  Speaker 3: treaty that the United States drafted and the Senate ratified
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  Speaker 3: and called the un Charter, and both prohibit this. The
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  Speaker 3: President doesn't seem to care about the Constitution, which he
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  Speaker 3: took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend. As we
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  Speaker 3: all know, he doesn't seem to care about a treaty
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  Speaker 3: with which he may disagree, even though under the lows
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 3: in the same category as the Constitution, this Constitution and
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 3: all treaties made pursuant to it shall be the supreme
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 3: law of the land. I'm quoting from the Constitution itself.
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  Speaker 3: But the President doesn't care and probably will get away
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  Speaker 3: with this. The Noriega example was just as unlawful as this,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 3: but the courts did not interfere with it. Interesting thing,
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  Speaker 3: Noriega argued that all he did was look the other
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  Speaker 3: way while the CIA engaged in drug trafficking, because the
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 3: CIA asked him to look the other way. Well, question
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  Speaker 3: who was the director of the CIA when Noriega was
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 3: engaged in what he says was cooperation with them? George Bush,
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 3: the same president who invaded Panama to arrest him. George HW. Bush.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing how that list stars ALIGNE on that. But
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  Speaker 1: under legal theories, him looking away is a criminal act.
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  Speaker 1: He is part of the broader conspiracy to involve the
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: involved in the drug trade. Whether it's the CIA doing
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: the drugs or not. If it was a Rico claim
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  Speaker 1: against him, he'd still be indictable and subject to prosecution
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  Speaker 1: by because he helped facilitate it by looking the other
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  Speaker 1: way and not doing anything.
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  Speaker 3: What about the CIA agent? No, no, I'm what are
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  Speaker 3: they going to be defended?
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  Speaker 1: Which leads me to the ultimate point here. Let's assume
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  Speaker 1: everyone agrees with you that right, this is extra constitutional.
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  Speaker 1: What is the response supposed to be in this insanely
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: politically divided environment. You can't get Congress to pass even
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: a bill. If Trump wants it, they hated. If Trump
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: doesn't want it, then they want it.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the response is. I think Trump
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 3: was correct yesterday when he told the Republican caucus that
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 3: if the Democrats take the House, he'll be impeached. They
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 3: won't be convicted, it'll be impeached, and we'll be going
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 3: through that nonsense of tying up the government and knots again.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 3: He's already been impeached twice. There just aren't the votes
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 3: to convict unless some more comes out. But that's really
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 3: the only remedy there is at this point. That Congress
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 3: doesn't have an LBJ. There is no person there who
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 3: can cobble together agreements that appeal to a majority of
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 3: Republicans and a majority of Democrats. It's whoever's in charge
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 3: gets their way. They don't want to go shape with
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 3: or talk to the minority party. The Democrats will probably
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 3: take the House in a November. Anything could happen. That's
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 3: nine months away, ten months away. They hope to take
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 3: the Senate. That's a bit of a stretch. But again,
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 3: anything could happen, but the government will be steinmied. It
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 3: will accomplish nothing. Maybe that's a good thing if Trump's
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 3: in the White House and one or both of the
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 3: Houses of Congress are controlled by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: So we are left with this sort of I don't
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: want to call it an incentive to ignore the declaration
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: of war responsibility in the Constitution. They control the Congress
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: is supposed to have over these matters. Because we run
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: into this brick wall that there won't be any consequences
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: if there is a questionable constitutional action here, So doesn't
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: that sort of facilitate presidents down the road doing the
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: same thing. And a suggestion I met to you in
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: that email, it's like throwing in the concepts of legal
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: concepts of waiver and a stop or whatever. Everybody's done
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: it since World War Two. We kind of like political expedients.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: We don't have to put ourselves down as voting in
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: favor of something like this, and it gives us an
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 1: opportunity to scream and yell about what the opposition president
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: is doing. And yet since they don't follow through and
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: do anything, something suggests in the back of my mind
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: that I think they all kind of like this cozy
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: arrangements as well. It's by the fact that the Constitution
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: seems prohibited.
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  Speaker 3: I was literally interviewing the late great Congressman Charlie Wrangle
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 3: of Harlem when President Obama came a national television from
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 3: Brazil and announced that we were bombing Libya. And I
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 3: looked at the Congressman Wrangle and I said, did I
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 3: miss something? Did you guys declare war on Libya. I
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 3: won't try and imitate his voice, yet I remember him
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 3: a famous way of speaking with a very scratchy sounding voice,
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 3: but he said, well, no, we didn't. We just hope
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 3: it's a success full outcome, and then it's a win
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 3: win for us. We didn't declare war, but we'll reap
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 3: the benefits for more. So we privately hope it's successful,
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 3: but publicly we'll say the hell are you to do this?
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 3: Follow the constitution. The attitude is the same amongst the
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 3: Republicans today.
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  Speaker 1: It is. That's why I think it's going to continue.
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  Speaker 1: If there isn't a political ramification or some illegal ramifies, then.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have a constitution and we don't really have
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 3: a democracy. We just have a term limited monarch in
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 3: the White House. He may not even be term limited
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 3: in his own mind.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you know, you could move over to different
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 1: areas of topics. I just had a conversation with a
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: gentleman who wrote a book, Ary Benoy. He's been with
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: a johnsh Burt Society since basically it's founding. But he
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: put it out a COVID nineteen and I brought up
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: the fact that free exercise of religion was eradicated, like
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: to free assembly was eradicated, all in the name of
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: all COVID. So our Constitution gets traded. You and I
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: have talked many times about they're trampling all over the
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: Fourth Amendment. There are right to be free of unreasonable
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: searches and seizures. And what's going on with FISA courts?
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: I mean here and there in everywhere.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 3: The drug war in the sixties, seventies and eighties, and
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  Speaker 3: then the overreaction to nine to eleven have obliterated the
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  Speaker 3: Fourth Amendment, and the courts have gone along with it.
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  Speaker 3: There are very few of my former colleagues in black
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  Speaker 3: robes who believe that the Constitution means what it says,
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  Speaker 3: very very few. It's hard for me to find one
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  Speaker 3: on the Supreme Court of the United States. I might
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  Speaker 3: have said that about Justice gor s such a year
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  Speaker 3: or so ago, but he seems to have fallen in
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  Speaker 3: line with his right wing colleagues, including my college debate
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  Speaker 3: partner Sam Alito.
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  Speaker 6: What of?
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  Speaker 1: And I just I have to bring this up because
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  Speaker 1: been the subject of a lot of discussion going back
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  Speaker 1: to Venezuela. The Democrats, Joe Biden's want to put up
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  Speaker 1: twenty five or fifty million dollars bounty on him. Is
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  Speaker 1: there something to a bounty? Is that extra constitutional? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what that means. If you put
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  Speaker 1: a bounty out and someone's being offered millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars to bring me the head of nor Diega
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  Speaker 1: or Maduro or whoever. It seems to me that that's
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  Speaker 1: a suggestion that the American military is going to do it,
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  Speaker 1: because who among us can go into a foreign land
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  Speaker 1: and actually successfully capture somebody who's under guard. But is
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  Speaker 1: there something wrong with that concept? And how can you
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  Speaker 1: advocate for putting a bounty on a man's head and
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  Speaker 1: then run back the next day and screaming yell about
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  Speaker 1: someone actually extra or taking action on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I never looked at the constitutionality of bounties. The
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  Speaker 3: American government'smen using bounties since right after the Revolutionary War.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes we put bounties on the heads of people
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  Speaker 3: like the president of the current president of Syria, and
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  Speaker 3: then we just take the bounty away and embrace him
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  Speaker 3: in the in the oval office. So it's more it's
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  Speaker 3: more political than it is legal or financial. Who's going
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  Speaker 3: to get the fifty million that the State Department put up?
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  Speaker 3: Is it going to be shared amongst the guys that
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  Speaker 3: actually grabbed him in his bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe the intel that came from within the administration
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  Speaker 1: that no longer exists. There probably that person or persons
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  Speaker 1: that gave the intel to our American military.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the likely culprit is still a general and still
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  Speaker 3: subject to the new president, Maduro's chosen vice president. It's
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  Speaker 3: very interesting that unlike the Bush Cheney administration, which when
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  Speaker 3: they took over Iraq through the whole government out, the
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  Speaker 3: Trump people have decided, let's work with the people that
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  Speaker 3: are in place. We can't fill the potholes, we can't
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  Speaker 3: deliver the mail, we can't collect the garbage. Oh, we
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  Speaker 3: can't even do that in our own country. How are
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  Speaker 3: we going to do it in Venezuela?
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  Speaker 1: And I think the threat of the same thing happening
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  Speaker 1: to those current leaders may force them or cause them
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  Speaker 1: to be more inclined to work with Trump to achieve
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  Speaker 1: the goals that Trump's looking for, like bringing out fifty
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  Speaker 1: million barrels of oil.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just theft, that's.
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  Speaker 6: Just a.
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  Speaker 3: Schoolyard bully saying give me your lunch money or I'll
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  Speaker 3: beat your face in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can say no, though, it's complicated, isn't it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: should we.
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  Speaker 3: Need more bullies in the world to oh, a neutralized
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  Speaker 3: one in the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Should I mention even the word greenland? Oh God, let's
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  Speaker 1: not go there anyway, you know, going back to Seward's folly,
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  Speaker 1: the idea of buying greenland, that's been done before. So
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  Speaker 1: if you write them at check and they accept that,
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  Speaker 1: and that can be an arms length negotiation, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: But this talk of military intervention to take it over,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what planet that comes from, Judge of Poltone,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of feel you feel the same way on
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  Speaker 1: that one.
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  Speaker 3: I do feel the same way it comes from the
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  Speaker 3: President's brain. I mean, the sale of it requires a
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  Speaker 3: willing seller as well as a willing fire. In this
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  Speaker 3: case of the willing buyer would have to be the
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 3: Congress of the United States, right, can't be Trump and
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  Speaker 3: his billionaire friends. So I don't I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: this could possibly happen. I can't imagine the Senate going
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  Speaker 3: along with this exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So conceptually it's possible, but reality has to step in
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  Speaker 1: and say no, it's not possible. Judge Ennetapolitano, always an
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  Speaker 1: outstanding discussion with you. I appreciate you willingness to come
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  Speaker 1: on the morning show, and I hope we continue to
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  Speaker 1: do this throughout this calendar year.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, I hope the same, and I'm deeply grateful for
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  Speaker 3: all our time together, my dear friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks been a wonderful bunch of years.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people calling in. I'll just acknowledge up front.
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  Speaker 1: We I think we can all generally conclude Nepalitan a
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  Speaker 1: no fan of Trump, but as I mentioned, many times
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  Speaker 1: over the years. We try as hard as possible. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Strekker works his butt off to try to get people
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  Speaker 1: with different opinions on the program. We ask Democrat politicians
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  Speaker 1: to come on the show. Am I going to agree
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  Speaker 1: with him? No, but I love having the discussion with them.
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  Speaker 1: Things that make you go hmm, that pesky constitution getting
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  Speaker 1: in the way, and quite often it does. But you
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: know what, the erosion is gradual, and it's happening over
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: and over again, and you got to stand up for it.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, I mentioned the First Amendment in my conversation.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked many times about the Fourth Amendment. This one
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: involves matters of war. I know he's very strong in
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  Speaker 1: his opinions about this, and that's the judge you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: I have to agree with him, but at least I
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  Speaker 1: think it gives you that fuel for discussion and for
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  Speaker 1: intellectual process. Tim, thanks for calling this morning, Welcome to
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  Speaker 14: Thanks for taking my call.
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  Speaker 7: Brian.
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  Speaker 14: Hey, I'm a retired veteran and I do fully take
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  Speaker 14: the pay that my employer gives me for not having
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 14: his insurance. I do have try care and I use
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 14: that I do.
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  Speaker 8: Not utilize the VA.
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  Speaker 14: Going through my initial processing into the VA. They charged
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  Speaker 14: me for it. I didn't have to pay, but you know,
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  Speaker 14: but still they billed me for the services of doing
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  Speaker 14: my initial screening, and I just don't trust them to
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  Speaker 14: save my life.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess you're entitled, certainly entitled to your opinion,
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  Speaker 1: and that's fine. But see now that I would can
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  Speaker 1: perceive that to be a complaint, and I, taking Steve
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: Belzo's advice, recommend you know, delivering that complaint to them
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: and having answer and account for it. They may change
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: things based upon your experience, because obviously it left you
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: with a negative impression. So things have gotten much better
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  Speaker 1: over the years. I mean, I don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: back to Bob McDonald how bad things were when that
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  Speaker 1: clown was running the show. We've gotten a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: And they continue to strive to serve the American veteran,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I continue to support them. And I
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  Speaker 1: know guys like Steve really have your back and the
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  Speaker 1: folks of the VA really have your back as well.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe next experience will be better. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but please do not hesitate to register or complain with them,
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  Speaker 1: because they will they will take them seriously, Hey, Zach,
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  Speaker 1: final word this morning, thanks for calling it. A Happy
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday to you, Sir Brian.
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  Speaker 7: Good to hear from me. I was listening to the
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  Speaker 7: radio and Donovan with AFP came on. I'm very honored
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  Speaker 7: to have the endorsement of Americans for a Prosperity and
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  Speaker 7: my State Center race for District seven. And I've always said,
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  Speaker 7: if you want change, you got to stop electing career politicians.
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  Speaker 7: When need privates, business people, problem solvers, people that are
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  Speaker 7: motivated by a paycheck and a pension that can't be
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  Speaker 7: bully bought or bribed. They're going to get to the
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  Speaker 7: bottom of things, get to these NGOs, all the waste,
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  Speaker 7: all the corruption, roll up their sleeves and start fixing problems.
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  Speaker 7: So I look part it coming on your show in
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  Speaker 7: the future.
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  Speaker 1: You are obviously welcome, Zach. I sure appreciate you calling
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  Speaker 1: in and listening to the segment. Of course, Americans for
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  Speaker 1: Prosperity certainly has your back and you will well the
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